Sometimes, we want to send emails with JavaScript.
In this article, we’ll look at how to send emails with JavaScript.
How to send emails with JavaScript?
To send emails with JavaScript, we can create a mailto URL and go to it.
For instance, we write
const sendMail = () => {
const link =
"mailto:me@example.com" +
"?cc=myCCaddress@example.com" +
"&subject=" +
encodeURIComponent("This is my subject") +
"&body=" +
encodeURIComponent(document.getElementById("myText").value);
window.location.href = link;
};
to define the sendMail function that creates the link mailto URL.
mailto: has the address to send the email to.
cc has the CC email.
subject has the subject.
body has the email body.
We use encodeURIComponent to encode the values so that they can be in the URL.
Then we set window.location.href to link to open the default mail client with the data from the URL filled as the value in the fields.
Conclusion
To send emails with JavaScript, we can create a mailto URL and go to it.
