%20 shows in form email

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Chris McLean

In my frontpage class I was told that, when entering the subject line and
message in a form email linked to an email address on a web page, I had to
put %20 in all the blank spaces between words or else frontpage would insert
a + sign to fill the space. Sure enough, the plus sign is there if I leave
space between the words, but when I put %20 in, that shows up in the message
when I click on the link in my browser. What am I doing wrong?

The way I am doing it is:
1: Click 'parameters' in the hyperlink dialog box
2: Type 'subject' in the 'name' section
3: Type Subject%20of%20this%message in the Value section
 
If you are filling out a form on the web you do not need to enter %20 or +
signs anywhere.

If setting up a form in FP, spaces are not allowed in email address, so you
would not enter a %20 or + sign, as for file and folder names in your web,
you should not have spaces or other special characters, used the underscore
character, if you want to have what appears to be a space.

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You should be putting in the + sign.
3: Type Subject+of+this+message in the Value section

FrontPage may correctly convert a space to +
The browser will convert a space to %20
The email client should convert the + back to a space, but may ignore %20.
 
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