Href mailto

A simple but useful combination!

href and mailto are two HTML attributes that work together to create a clickable email link.

Here's the breakdown:

• href: This attribute specifies the URL of the link. In the case of an email link, the href attribute is set to mailto: followed by the email address.
• mailto: This is a special protocol that tells the browser to open the user's default email client or compose a new email message.

When you combine these two attributes, you get a clickable email link that, when clicked, opens the user's default email client or composes a new email message with the specified email address.

Here's an example:

<a href="mailto:[email protected]">Contact us</a>

In this example, the link text "Contact us" is wrapped in an <a> tag with an href attribute set to mailto:[email protected]. When the user clicks on the link, their default email client will open with the email address [email protected] already filled in.

You can also add additional parameters to the mailto link to specify the subject, body, and other details of the email. For example:

<a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=Hello&body=Hello%20again">Contact us</a>

In this example, the link will open with the subject "Hello" and the body "Hello again" already filled in. The %20 is used to encode the space character in the body text.