Populate Form Field

[moonman]

This may well be very simple, so please forgive my lack of javascript knowledge.

I've got a site which has a different email address on each page. What I need to do is, when someone clicks on the email address, it populates a text box on a different page with the email address that was clicked.

Then, I need the form to submit an email to the email address that has been specified by clicking the link.

Help please!!!

[jofa]

Put the email address in the link's query string, like this
<a href="differentpage.htm?email=xxx@yyy.zz">Send an email to xxx@yyy.zz</a>

In differentpage.htm you can get the email with...
var email = location.search.substr(location.search.indexOf('email=') + 6);
...and then put it in the text box...
document.forms[0].elements[0].value = email;

If you have more than one variable in the query string, use a more general method
Like this: Request Object for Javascript

[moonman]

Cheers Jofa, it's working like a dream.

I have a new problem now though. I need to get the form submitting to the email address that has populated the text box.


Things are never simple

[jofa]

document.forms[0].action = 'mailto:' + email;

Or, even better:
document.forms[0].action = 'mailto:' + email + '?subject=Some descriptive title';

NB! The form's other attributes must be...
<form method="post" enctype="text/plain">

Things are often more simple than you think

[moonman]

Yep, that worked fine.

The only problem is that I get a pop-up box saying "This form is being submitted using e-mail." Blah Blah Blah. Then is it says "A program is trying to automatically send email on your behalf." and it warns about a virus. Is there any way round this???

[jofa]

Changing security settings in Outlook, but I wouldn't recommend that
Anyway, if you change your security settings, that doesn't change what all other users will see