Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 406 Location: Nova Scotia
Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2004 4:17 pm How do I create an email link?
The mail link works with the same <a> tag as other links in your HTML. A mail link looks like this -
Code:
<a href="mailto:mjpliv.eastlink.ca">Send me some mail!</a>
Clicking on the words "Send me some mail!" would activate the default mail client on that person's computer opening a new email message with the destination address already filled in. You can also have the subject line filled in using this code.
Code:
<a href="mailto:mjpliv.eastlink.ca?subject=Put text here that you want in the subject line">Send me some mail!</a>
Or you can send a copy to another recipient.
Code:
<a href="mailto:mjpliv.eastlink.ca?cc=anotehraddressatasite.com">Send me some mail!</a>
Or perhaps a blind copy.
Code:
<a href="mailto:mjpliv.eastlink.ca?bcc=anotehraddressatasite.com">Send me some mail!</a>
You can fill in the body portion of the message as well.
Code:
<a href="mailto:mjpliv.eastlink.ca?body=This is cool!">Send me some mail!</a>
If you want these can be combined
Code:
<a href="mailto:mjpliv.eastlink.ca?subject=a message for you&cc=anotehraddressatasite.com&body=Hello!">Send me some mail!</a>
One thing to remember is that every time you list your email address on a website you increase the chances of it being harvested by a web crawler. These crawlers are released to gather as many valid email addresses as possible to add to spammer's mailing lists.
Some sites, like this one, hide your email address inside a database that is not part of the website. If you do not have access to this function you can mask your address by using unicode. There are online services to create this code, or you can download one from http://www.codefoot.com/software/ecloaker/index.html (There are few pop-ups on this page I am afraid).
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