Re: E-mail Link Problem

I have FrontPage 2000 and just tried creating the mailto link you described
and it worked fine on my end.

B. Daniel Lavall�e

----- Original Message -----
From: Julie Johnston <Johnst(at)memo.acehardware.com>
To: <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>; <hwg-software(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 1:16 PM
Subject: E-mail Link Problem


> I'm creating an e-mail directory thru FrontPage 2000.  One area that I'm
> having a problem with is when the e-mail address contains a "&" in it (for
> example "smith&sons(at)hotmail.com").  My HTML tag looks like this:
>
> <a href="mailto:smith&amp;sons(at)hotmail.com">
>
> However, when I click on the e-mail link, "smith" is the only part that
> appears ("&sons(at)hotmail.com" is missing).  I've deleted the link & reinput
> it, but I'm still having the same problem.  Does anyone know why this is
> happening & what I can do to correct the link.  Thanks for your help.

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