Email tricks with mailto links from your web site
Email link tricks and mailto link tutorial
How to create a basic email link on a web page
To create an email link from a web page you use this simple bit of code
<a href="mailto:name@domain.co.uk>page text here</a>
e.g.
<a href="mailto:julie@domain.co.uk>julie@domain.co.uk</a>
or
<a href="mailto:julie@domain.co.uk>email me</a>
If you are using Dreamweaver just type the text you want to see on the page,
select it and then type mailto: followed by your
email address into
the link field of the property inspector.
e.g. mailto:name@domain.co.uk
Automatically add a subject line to your email
It is possible to add a subject line to the email automatically when someone clicks on the email link on your web page.
<a href="mailto:name@domain.co.uk?Subject=Web Enquiry">name@domain.co.uk</a>
You may have to use %20 in the spaces of the subject, to ensure that the subject is handled correctly by software which can't work with the space.
<a href="mailto:name@domain.co.uk?Subject=Web%20Enquiry">name@domain.co.uk</a>
Create an email link to send the email to more than one email address
Use bcc or cc to add an extra address to your email link
<a href="mailto:julie@domain.co.uk?bcc=john@domain.co.uk">contact us</a>
You can then combine these features together into one email link
<a href="mailto:julie@domain.co.uk?bcc=john@domain.co.uk&subject=Enquiry">contact us</a>
More information on email links
It is also possible to add the first line of email content text by adding
the following after the email address.
?content=your text here
Dreamweaver
If you are using Macromedia Dreamweaver then you just need to
modify the mailto link in the link field of the property inspector.
e.g. the link should display as:
mailto:name@domain.co.uk
To add a subject line, change it to:
mailto:name@domain.co.uk?Subject=Web Enquiry