Hi everyone!
I am new to this site and would like some help in using "mailto".
Does anyone know how to change the body text of "mailto" to bold and color of red?
Thanks!
mkhilli dont think it will pass through to the email if you did change it.
all mailto is. is a trigger to open the users default email client with the option of having a few boxes filled in.
i actually completely avoid this method now due to spam bots crawling my sites and hammering me with huge amounts of spam.
i've even had to resort to image verification on many of my sites to stop my php mail script for getting abused.The most common usage of mailto: is to give email addresses to spambots.
For regular browser users its use means that they have to have a separate email program on the same computer and for those browseing the web in libraries, internet cafes etc they do not. There are also a lot of people who have more than one computer and run email on one and their web browser on the other.
For contact forms you can't use mailto anyway since many browsers will ignore the form and just open the email program (if there is one).
The best solution is an email form on the page that links to a server side form2mail script. Add the destination email address after the form is submitted and the spammers would have to fill out the form to send you their spam. Add a decent captcha to the form and they would have to do it manually and would not be able to automate the spamming process.I have seen some encrypters that "encrypt" (maybe) the email address so bots can't get them...never use them because i have never had a problem... yetwait till you start to climb the search rankings and get a lot of traffic to your website.
I am new to this site and would like some help in using "mailto".
Does anyone know how to change the body text of "mailto" to bold and color of red?
Thanks!
mkhilli dont think it will pass through to the email if you did change it.
all mailto is. is a trigger to open the users default email client with the option of having a few boxes filled in.
i actually completely avoid this method now due to spam bots crawling my sites and hammering me with huge amounts of spam.
i've even had to resort to image verification on many of my sites to stop my php mail script for getting abused.The most common usage of mailto: is to give email addresses to spambots.
For regular browser users its use means that they have to have a separate email program on the same computer and for those browseing the web in libraries, internet cafes etc they do not. There are also a lot of people who have more than one computer and run email on one and their web browser on the other.
For contact forms you can't use mailto anyway since many browsers will ignore the form and just open the email program (if there is one).
The best solution is an email form on the page that links to a server side form2mail script. Add the destination email address after the form is submitted and the spammers would have to fill out the form to send you their spam. Add a decent captcha to the form and they would have to do it manually and would not be able to automate the spamming process.I have seen some encrypters that "encrypt" (maybe) the email address so bots can't get them...never use them because i have never had a problem... yetwait till you start to climb the search rankings and get a lot of traffic to your website.