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Email link inserts text where I don't want any.

Posted 03 Nov 2007 12:14:55
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03 Nov 2007 12:14:55 samuel small posted:
Hello All.
Thanks for your participation here.
Kinda newbie here so forgive me if my terminalogy is off.
Two part question:
1) I'm creating popup windows. I get that there's a difference between inserting a hyperlink to open a popup window as opposed to adding a behavior to do the same thing. Adding a behavior doesn't screw up my layout the way inserting a hyperlnk does so I much prefer that. (Why does any action screw up my layout?)
2) Similarly, when inserting an email link DW insists an adding text into my page and forces everything to move around. (Things moving around without my consent is not acceptable to me.) Is there a "behavior" that will trigger a viewer's email program to send me an email to my designated address instead of the messy email link? Or can I turn off the text insert that happens when I enter my email address in the insert email link mode? I din't enter anything in the "text" field so why does it insert text?

Thanks All.

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Replied 04 Nov 2007 15:46:25
04 Nov 2007 15:46:25 Alan C replied:
HI,
I've not experienced the issue, but handle emails in a different way. If you put mailto type links on your pages the email address is exposed to email harvesters unless you go to a lot of trouble to try to hide it, I prefer to have a separate page that gets called as a php file, then on there I have my form. I use forms to go, a small application, to add verification to the form fields then tell the user whether their email has gone or not.
Doing it like that the destination email address is never exposed and you can add tests to determine that a human is completing the form.

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