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Posted by mully BENDET
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mully BENDET
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 3,054 Points

why does it not work

<P>email:</P> <input id="myd" type="email" name="email"/>

<button onclick="myFunction();" id="myd">save</button>

<script> function myFunction(){ var email = document.getElementById("myd"); window.location.href = "mailto:" + email + "?subject=your order was prosesed"; } </script>

2 Answers

Joris Noltes
Joris Noltes
33,824 Points
Joris Noltes
Joris Noltes
33,824 Points

You seem to have the same id for both the input field, as well as the button.

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,072 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,072 Points

Each ID value on the page must be unique, and as Joris observed, you seem to have the same one used on different elements.

But another issue is that even if the correct element is selected, concatenating it with "mailto:" isn't going to create a string you could set the location with. You probably will want to use the value property of the element instead of the element itself.