HTML Email Code

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You can copy and paste this code into your own HTML documents - just change the values of the attributes as required.</p> <div class="ad">  <div data-fuse="23059883629"></div> </div> <p>The following code creates an email link - when your users click on the link, the browser should open the default email client with the "to" and "subject" fields already populated.</p> <h2>Basic Email Link Code</h2> <p>To use this code, simply change the email address to suit your own context.</p> <script src="/common/js/codemirror/lib/codemirror.js"></script> <script src="/common/js/codemirror/mode/htmlmixed/htmlmixed.js"></script> <script src="/common/js/codemirror/mode/css/css.js"></script> <script src="/common/js/codemirror/mode/javascript/javascript.js"></script> <script src="/common/js/codemirror/mode/xml/xml.js"></script> <div class="code-only"> <textarea id="example1" autocomplete="off" spellcheck="false"><a href="mailto:homer@example.com">Email Homer</a></textarea> </div> <script> var exampleCode1 = CodeMirror.fromTextArea(document.getElementById("example1"), { mode: "htmlmixed", tabMode: "indent", styleActiveLine: false, lineNumbers: false, lineWrapping: true, theme: "q-dark" }); </script> <h2>Add A Subject Line</h2> <p>You can automatically populate the subject line with the following code:</p> <script src="/common/js/codemirror/mode/htmlmixed/htmlmixed.js"></script> <div class="code-only"> <textarea id="example2" autocomplete="off" spellcheck="false"><a href="mailto:homer@example.com?subject=Doh!">Email Homer</a></textarea> </div> <script> var exampleCode2 = CodeMirror.fromTextArea(document.getElementById("example2"), { mode: "htmlmixed", tabMode: "indent", styleActiveLine: false, lineNumbers: false, lineWrapping: true, theme: "q-dark" }); </script> <h2>About Email Link Code</h2> <p>Email links are created using the HTML <a href="/html/tags/html_a_tag.cfm">anchor</a> tag, which is the same tag used for creating links to another web page. 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