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HttpCapabilitiesBase.CanSendMail Property

Gets a value indicating whether the browser supports sending e-mail by using the HTML <mailto> element for displaying electronic addresses.

Namespace:  System.Web.Configuration
Assembly:  System.Web (in System.Web.dll)

'Declaration
Public Overridable ReadOnly Property CanSendMail As Boolean

Property Value

Type: System.Boolean
true if the browser supports sending e-mail by using the HTML <mailto> element for displaying electronic addresses; otherwise, false. The default is true.

The following code example shows how to determine whether the browser supports sending e-mail by using the HTML <mailto> element for displaying electronic addresses.


<%@ page language="VB" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<script runat="server">
    Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
        CheckBrowserCaps()
    End Sub

    Function CheckBrowserCaps()

        Dim labelText As String = ""
        Dim myBrowserCaps As System.Web.HttpBrowserCapabilities = Request.Browser
        If (CType(myBrowserCaps, System.Web.Configuration.HttpCapabilitiesBase)).CanSendMail Then
            labelText = "Browser can send e-mail."
        Else
            labelText = "Browser cannot send e-mail."
        End If

        Label1.Text = labelText

    End Function 'CheckBrowserCaps
</script>

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head>
    <title>Browser Capabilities Sample</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form runat="server" id="form1">
        <div>
            Browser Capabilities:
            <p/><asp:Label ID="Label1" Runat="server" />
        </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>


.NET Framework

Supported in: 4, 3.5, 3.0, 2.0

Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows XP SP2 x64 Edition, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.
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