Hyperlinking to an E-Mail Address
Hyperlinks can point to anything, not just to Web pages. You can create e-mail hyperlinks, for example, that start the user’s default e-mail program, create a new message, and enter the recipient’s address. (You can also set it to fill in the message subject if you like.)
E-mail hyperlinks are useful when you want to direct someone to send e-mail to a
particular person. For example, it is common to include a link to e-mail a
site’s Webmaster. To create a hyperlink to an e-mail address, use the same
href= argument as before, but instead of a Web address, type
mailto: followed by the e-mail address, like this:
<a href="mailto:support@adatum.com">Contact Us</a>
Caution
Not everyone who has Web access also has an appropriate ...
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