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
'Usage
Dim instance As HttpCapabilitiesBase
Dim value As Boolean

value = instance.CanSendMail

/** @property */
public boolean get_CanSendMail ()

public function get CanSendMail () : boolean

Not applicable.

Property Value

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>

Windows 98, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Starter Edition

The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 is supported on Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP SP2, and Windows Server 2003 SP1.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.0, 2.0

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