HTML(with javascript) sending email from a form. Not sure how to do this.?

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David P

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Hello everyone.
What I am trying to do is have the ability to send email (or worst case senerio) open the default mail client and send an email.

Here is what I have so far.
I have 2 textboxes and a textarea, and a submit button. However, I am trying to capture the name subject and body to send. I can get it to open in a mail client but I can't get the text I want to appear (which will vary). So for instance the email, subject I can't get to appear. For some reason the variable name is appearing. Below is my code. Any help would be great.

<html>

<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
function sayHi()
{
var txtName = document.getElementById(email);
var txtOutput = document.getElementById("Subject").value;

}
</script>

</head>

<body>

<input type="text" id="email"> <br />
<input type="subject"> <br />
<textarea rows="5" cols="20" id="Box"> </textarea><br />
<a href="mailto:txtName?subject=txtOutput&body='Box'">Send Email</a>

<input type="button" value="Send email" onClick="sayHi()"><br />



</body>

</html>

Thank you,
Thank you, but I need a little more help. What do I do on either my link or my button?

<input type="email" id="email"> <br />
<input type="subject" id="subject"> <br />
<textarea rows="5" cols="20" id="Box"> </textarea><br />
<a href="mailto:email?subject=subject&body="stuff"">Send Email</a>

<input type="button" value="Send email" onClick="sayHi()"><br />
 
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