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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 5, 2010, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-create-a-html-email-using-the-mailto-type-of-html-anchor/545570 "2010-07-05T00:22:01Z")\
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**Author:**  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-create-a-html-email-using-the-mailto-type-of-html-anchor/545570/1 "2010-07-05T00:22:01Z")
Or to ask the question differently, is it possible to specifiy the content-type or MIME type when constructing a mailto link? And if so, how?
I have googled this but as usual it’s like trying to find a needle in a haystack.
I am also aware that the prefered method is to use the mailer functionality of the server that the page is served from.
For the sake of one email with a bit of html in it I don’t want to be trying to get the mailer working on a server running IIS and also Apache and which I have limited access to.
Also, for the purpose of what I am doing I actually think it’s neat that the mail would be sent from the mail client/address of the person using the website (as would happen with a mailto anchor).
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**Author:**  [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-create-a-html-email-using-the-mailto-type-of-html-anchor/545570/2 "2010-07-05T00:36:44Z")
There’s no way to create HTML email from a mailto link. You can create a text email, or you can do it server-side.
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**Author:**  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-create-a-html-email-using-the-mailto-type-of-html-anchor/545570/3 "2010-07-05T00:54:13Z")
That’s what I feared ☹ Thanks for the reply 🙂