\n doesn't work in the body value of a mailto: link

Question

I'm trying setting up a mailto: link with a body bigger than one line.

I tried \n to start a new line but it shows up in mail body as characters and doesn't start a new line:

<a href="mailto:example@example.com?Subject=test&body=test \n test \n test \n"

Answer 1

Use %0D%0A in place of \n, due to url encoding. %0D is the url encoding for Carriage Return, %0A is the url encoding for Line Feed.

Here's an answer that explains what each mean.

In your example, it'll come out like this:

<a href="mailto:example@example.com&subject=test&body=test%0D%0Atest%0D%0Atest%0D%0A">mail</a>

Also note that subject should be all lowercase, otherwise you'll end up with Subject=test as the subject itself.