dhtml in emails: yahoo/hotmail...problems etc..

[BrightNail]

hey all,

I have to send out some emails from my company. I need some dhtml in them to faciliate some collapseable menus for links...but it doesn't work when sent to hotmail/yahoo accounts...., I can't even get a simple select dropdown javascript redirect to work...

is there a reason why, and how do I overcome this?

thanks

[brothercake]

the reason is security, and you can't overcome it. I know your intentions are cool, but the potential for misuse is huge. In the case of yahoo and hotmail, the mail server filters it out by rewriting the <script> tags into something meaningles (iirc). In my opinion, nobody in their right mind would allow javascript to run inside HTML email; especially not if it's Outlook.