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How to Create an Email Link in Html

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It is always a great experience to the visitors of your website if they have something which makes them communicate easily with you regarding any concerns or queries they have on your website. This is definitely a value added feature for any website. Let's discuss step by step on how we can add an email link to a webpage using a simple HTML code snippet.

Steps

  1. 1

    Type the anchor tag <a href= in your HTML document. The "<a href=" attribute begins the link in your HTML document. The "<a href=" tag generally tells the browser that the following item is a link.

    • You'll need to add all HTML code up to this point before crossing any further into the document.

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    Type mailto: after the "=" sign. This tells the web browser that the following link is to an email address, rather than a web page.

  3. 3

    Type the users email next. A properly formatted command so-far would be <a href=mailto:<nowiki> agentavery@sample.com" .

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    Add a pre-made subject-line (optional). If you wish to add a pre-made subject, type a question mark (?) after the user's email address, followed by the word "subject" (without the quotation marks), followed by an equals sign (=), followed by the subject inside a pair of quotation marks.

    • If you want to add this to your command, it should look like this so far: <a href=mailto:<nowiki>agentavery@sample.com?subject="subject text"
    • Try not to use characters that aren't alphanumeric in the subject line. There are ways to work around this so your link doesn't get stumped and thinks it's part of something else".
    • While most often not used, it is possible to add information to prefill the subject line via the mailto syntax. However, it's more often used when the mail is being sent to a server inside a robot that handles incoming mail so it can be processed later (so it can be filtered).
    • You can add "body" as well as a cc or a bcc line using a similar syntax. Just make sure to use a question mark followed by the term "body","cc", or "bcc" followed by an equals sign followed by the text for that line in a pair of quotation marks.

  5. 5

    Type > to add a closing bracket. So far, our HTML commands tell the web browser what email address to link to, and to add a subject/cc/bcc. The closing bracket ">" tells the web browser that there are no more commands to execute when the link is clicked.

  6. 6

    Type link text. This is the text the user clicks on to open the email link. It goes after the closing bracket. This can be a word, a phrase, or even a duplicate copy of the person's email address this is being sent to. Most often, this can be the phrase "here" or "this" or something of that sort.

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    Type </a> after the link text. This closes the HTML command. HTML anchor tags must have closure for this trick to work and not make the remainder of the page become an extension of the anchor tag.

    • The entire HTML email link command should look something like this: <a href=mailto:<nowiki>agentavery@sample.com?subject="HTML link">Click here to send us an email!!!</a>

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    Continue the remainder of the HTML document. Be sure to save your work. If you have more HTML to add to your document, continue your work.

Add New Question

  • Question

    How can you create an email link

    Free Eagle

    Free Eagle

    Community Answer

    Use the link code <a href="mailto:EmailAddress@.XYZ.com"> Text about emailing you </a> If you want the email to have a subject line link to: mailto:EmailAddress@.XYZ.com?subject=MESSAGE FROM YOUR WEBSITE"> Text about emailing you </a>. You can replace the Message with whatever you want.

  • Question

    How can I create a personal email system with @my website name, so a user or client can chat me directly through it and how do I create a chat platform or interface just like a messaging platform?

    Free Eagle

    Free Eagle

    Community Answer

    If you have Cpanel you can go to the "Email Accounts" and click on the "Create" button (generally on the right) and create whatever name@yourwebsite.com you want. After you have created the email address, go to softaculous Apps (in Cpanel), then go to "Customer Support" and download one of the help desk apps. Direct the messages to the set email.

  • Question

    Where will I get HTML from?

    faith daniel

    faith daniel

    Community Answer

    HTML is a markup language that doesn't require any special download since the tools needed are already installed on your computer, e.g notepad, notepad++, etc. But you might consider getting more advanced and flexible software to run your codes in real-time, those includes sublime text, brackets, atom, vs code, etc.

  • Question

    How do you add an email link to a web page?

    Community Answer

    Highlight the text you want to link, click the link icon, and select "Email" from the drop-down. (Optional) Edit the text you want to display as the link. Enter the email address you want contacts to send to in the Email address field. Click Insert. Click Done.

  • Question

    How do I put HTML tags in the body of an email link?

    Community Answer

    To create a Mailto link, you need to use the HTML <a> tag with its href attribute, and insert a "mailto:" parameter after it, like the following: If you want to have a subject field, which is already filled out, add the "subject" parameter to the href attribute.

  • Question

    There's a semi-colon after my email, what is up with that?

    Anne DRAIN-HALL

    Anne DRAIN-HALL

    Community Answer

    It's allowing for a list, i.e. when you write an email in the address box you enter the receiver's email address, it then shows after it to allow another email address to be written.

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  • The anchor HTML tag <a> tag can be used in different ways. Better to learn about it completely to use it effectively.

  • Anchor tags must be placed inside the body (<body>...</body>) section of the HTML document. Don't put it anywhere else or it ends up causing errors or immediately opening the email agent when you load the webpage its listed on, no matter if you are previewing it or your visitor is opening this page, and could cause some aggravation for unintentional opening.

  • Putting email address on a web page can cause a spamming problem for email accounts. There are many guys over the Internet who can run programs to harvest these types of emails for spamming. So, who puts email link on a public website have to be prepared for anti-spamming as well.

  • Check the recipient name before you send the mail.

  • If users do not have email client installed on their computer then it would not be possible to send you email.

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