How to create a "Email this page" button using aspx and c#

[vtecrocks]

Hi there,

I need to create an "Email this page" button on a aspx page using c#. Upon clicking on the button, Outlook editor will be launched, with the HTML of the page already pasted into the body of the message. I tried the html tag mailto, but how can i programmatically paste the content of the page to the body of the message?

Is there anyway this can be done?

Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
James

[Memnoch]

You could do one of the following.

1) Read the page into a variable and then assign the body to the variable.

Using a link, instead of a button.

<A HREF='mailto:you@yourdomain.com?subject=Your Subject&body=" & Variable & "'>you@yourdomain.com</a>

2) The easiest way would be to just provide a link to the page in the email.

[vtecrocks]

Thanks for the quick reply. I got the html mailto tag working fine, my problem is in the page load event of the page, how can i capture the content of the html page to a variable? like in

<A HREF='mailto:you@yourdomain.com?subject=Your Subject&body=" & Variable & "'>you@yourdomain.com</a>

how do i get the content of the page to Variable????

will a httpclient object work? however when i try to set the mailto link, it is still loading the page in the page load function.......

Thanks,
James

[Memnoch]

Use the System.IO Namespaces methods to read the page.