Mailto: problems

Good morning,

I'm trying to add a mailto: link, but am encountering problems as the
email address contains an & (ampersand), which will not work in the
standard tag. Example readiness&improvement@mycompany.com

Please advise.

~Julz

chris
Tue Aug 10 11:26:20 CDT 2004

I can't guarantee it because I've never tried it in your particular
situation but sometimes with situations like this you can use the hex
equivalent for the character rather than the character itself.

HTH

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"Julz" <jhbiz@austin.rr.com> wrote in message
news:eDOA5RvfEHA.3676@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Good morning,
>
> I'm trying to add a mailto: link, but am encountering problems as the
> email address contains an & (ampersand), which will not work in the
> standard tag. Example readiness&improvement@mycompany.com
>
> Please advise.
>
> ~Julz
>

Steve
Tue Aug 10 11:26:52 CDT 2004

It works when clicked, because I just clicked it and it opened a new mail window.

Try adding it by hand in html view.


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"Julz" <jhbiz@austin.rr.com> wrote in message news:eDOA5RvfEHA.3676@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Good morning,
>
> I'm trying to add a mailto: link, but am encountering problems as the
> email address contains an & (ampersand), which will not work in the
> standard tag. Example readiness&improvement@mycompany.com
>
> Please advise.
>
> ~Julz
>

Tad
Tue Aug 10 13:14:37 CDT 2004

I'm not an expert but I don't believe you can use special
characters in email or file names. And even if you can
it is a bad idea. I think the only way you can do this
is to change the & to and. You might want to also try
the following:

<a
href="mailto:readinessandimprovement@yourcompany.com">Read
iness &amp; Improvement</a>
or

<a href="mailto:randi@yourcompany.com">Readiness &amp;
Improvement</a>


>-----Original Message-----
>Good morning,
>
>I'm trying to add a mailto: link, but am encountering
problems as the
>email address contains an & (ampersand), which will not
work in the
>standard tag. Example
readiness&improvement@mycompany.com
>
>Please advise.
>
>~Julz
>
>.
>