HTML: insert line-break in email subject like %20 is a space?

Question

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I wonder if it is possible to write something like %20 (which stands for a space) for a line-break as well. So I want to have seperate lines in my body of the e-mail.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

You should use a carriage return %0D and line feed %0A

<a href="mailto:endpointadress@something.com?cc=endpointadress2@something.com&subject=your subject&body=Text before new line.%0D%0AText after new line.">create email</a>

This is defined in RFC2368 and is the only valid method of generating a line-break.

Answer 2

Replace \\n (and \\r\\n ) by %0D%0A as specified by RFC6068 (in section 5 ) updating the mailto URI Scheme as of October 2010 (replacing RFC2368 ).

[...] line breaks in the body of a message MUST be encoded with "%0D%0A" .
Implementations MAY add a final line break to the body of a message even if there is no trailing "%0D%0A" in the body [...]

This is the example from the RFC (in section 6 )

<mailto:infobot@example.com?body=send%20current-issue%0D%0Asend%20index>

The above mail body corresponds to:

send current-issue
send index