Set a mailto link with a subject containing an ampersand (&)

email, html, mailto, tags

Solution

In order to get special/reserved characters into a URL, you must encode them - to get an `&` to work, it must be encoded to `%26`.

More details here: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp

Problem

Im using the following `mailto` link to send an email: ``` <a class="share3" title="" href="mailto:?subject=@check&amp;body=@domain"> ``` It works well, but sometimes my subject will contain an ampersand (&) character, and when it does my email is created without a body. Any way to resolve this problem?

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