Hot Scripts Forums - View Single Post - email a page script, the whole html page!

TwoD · #3 (**permalink**) 06-28-06, 01:58 PM

I've never considered this before, since it's usually just form data which gets passed to the email client.
The tricky part would be to get all of the HTML into a form element.
Maybe this could be done by adding an <input type="hidden" id="pageSource" name="pageSource"> field and do somehting like this:

Code:

document.getElementById('pageSource').value="<html>"+document.getElementsByTagName("html")[0].innerHTML+"<\/html>"

Maybe somehting else could be used instead of .innerHTML (I'm thinking nodeValue but doubt it's valid in this case). outerHTML would be great but it isn't supported by many browsers.

I suspect there's a limit to the length of the value of a hidden field, maybe a <textarea> field could be used instead and hidden using styling.

I don't think there's a practical way to actually get the whole page to show up in the client and be sent as a text/html email. As I said, I've never tried this before...

EDIT: Ah, good point UnrealEd.
I wonder if ...body=<html>"+document.getElementsByTagName("htm l")[0].innerHTML+"<\/html>" would work.