I can send an email from JavaScript like:
window.location = "mailto:joe@blogs.com&body=Hello world";
And the user's default mail client (which will always be outlook for this purpose) opens with a pre-populated email that they can edit, then send, like this:
Now, I want to style the email to a basic level - adding links, text color, underlining etc.
My intention was to do this by adding HTML markup to the body, like this:
window.location = "mailto:joe@blogs.com&body=<html><body><h1>Hello world</h1></body></html>";
at the very least I expected to see the same result as before, implying that the client does not support that particular tag, but outlook just renders the tags as plain text, like this:
And even though outlook's default format is HTML, I also tried setting the content-type specifically, like this:
window.location = "mailto:joe@blogs.com&subject=hi&body=<html><body><h1>hello world</h1></body></html>&MIME-VERSION=1.0&Content-Type=text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1";
but get the same result as before.
I know the target version of outlook is capable of rendering HTML, because that's the default format, and from within the UI I can embolden, add links, etc, but how do I encode this information in a mailto: link and ensure that outlook renders it (where user settings permit, of course)
