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Posted by John Dunlop on 12/17/64 11:51
roger.rigsby@gmail.com:
> I have a working email functionality on my site but there's a problem
> with links. I really want to use the "send this article by email" sort
> of functionality on my site. But instead of emailing the entire
> article I just want the email to include a link to the article and
> ofcourse with query strings and all that sort of stuff the link could
> be quite long. In an attempt to make the links look good and mask all
> of the details I include the link in an html tag, so a very simple < a
> href = " wwwwww.whatevert....com " > Click here < /a >
>
> The problem is that it doesn't work the HTML code doesn't work in
> emails. What's the solution. I even tried typing out an html coded
> email using my email client and that didn't work so I guess there's
> just an issue with email and html.
I would agree that there is an issue with HTML in e-mails. There is
a body of opinion that says that e-mail and HTML don't click. They
don't get on. Assuming you have considered this...
Couple of questions. Is the Content-Type of the body part set to
text/html? That is, have you told the mail client what format the
message is in? Does the user-agent support, and is it configured to
interpret HTML mail?
One of the design principles of URLs is that they have fewer than ~70
characters, so that they fit on a single line in, for example, e-mails.
Are you perhaps addressing the symptom rather than the cause?
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Jock
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