getting a perticular div content and send it through php email

Ok i really need this done today and if you can help me i will be grateful to you.

Let's say i have a

<div id="contents">
contents contentscontents
contentscontentscontents
</div>

What i want is, when i click on a email to friend link, the whole data in this div should be emailed to the email address.

What i want is to add this div content in a variable(text area) and then send it through email. But with a click.

Any ideas ?

 

Using a form, something like this...

<script>
function emailToFriend()
{
document.getElementById("htmlContents").value = document.getElementById("contents").innerHTML;
document.getElementById("friendForm").submit();
}
</script>

HTML:

<form id="friendForm" onSubmit="return emailToFriend();">
<input name="htmlContents" value="" type="hidden"/>
<input name="submitButton" type="submit" value="send to friend"/>
</form>

HTML:

Completely untested, but that's the principle. You'll obviously need to add the method/action to the form and you may need to escape the html when setting it on the hidden element.

 

I think the person above me got it with the exception that you wanted a textarea but he put it in a hidden text field. You can easily fix that by making a textarea with the name and id of htmlContents.

 

Yeap text area will do it too, just set a style with a display:none on it to hide it.