Some Web Page Tricks

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Email links (mailto:)

A mailto link with the person's name as well as their email address:

John Doe

To create a new email message that looks like this:

To: John Doe <JDoe@blah>

 

A mailto link with a list of email addresses:

Deer Committee

To create a new email message that looks like this:

To: John Doe <JDoe@blah>, Jane Deere <JDeere@blah>

 

A mailto link that fills in the email message

Send Email

To create a new email message that looks like this:

To: Folks of World <world@TheGoonShow.com>
Subject: Hello, folks of World!

Evening, Neddie.

Warning: Adobe PageMill 2.0 changes the "=" characters in a link like this to their %XX hexidecimal equivalents whenever it saves the page. This makes the link not work as intended. Either don't use PageMill, or fix the page up after saving it out from PageMill. Other HTML editing programs may have similar problems. VisualPage 1.1.1 on Mac OS works OK.

 

Forms for searching

One of my pages shows how to search a particular web site using the usual search engines.

 

Other fancy stuff

A great web site on how to do fancy things in web pages
Another great web site on how to do fancy things in web pages


http://Yost.com/Computers/WebPageTricks/ - this page
1997-11-21 Created
1999-10-10 Modified cosmetically