How to Add an Email Link to your Web Page

An email link can be added to web pages, too (but see the warning at the bottom). When people click on this email link, their Email software will start up. In the To box of the email software will be your email address.

To add a email using your HTML Editor do the following:

<A HREF = "MailTo:online@homeandlearn.co.uk">Email us</A>

Notice that the link is the HREF type. After the equals sign you have this:

Mailto:

Mailto is all one word, and is followed by a colon. Then you put your email address after the colon, without typing a space. You then type a right angle bracket ( > ) before typing the text you want people to click on to send you an email. The Anchor closing tag </A> finishes it all off.

And that's it for email address - quite simple! If you want to centre the email address, highlight the entire email code and click Format > Centre. Or centre it with a paragraph tag. Like this:

<P ALIGN = Center>
<A HREF = "MailTo:online@homeandlearn.co.uk">Email us</A>
</P>

Try the email code out in a web page, save your work and see what happens when you view the web page and click the email link.

A word of warning about Email links, though. Spammers have programmes called robots whose job it is to trawl the internet looking for the MAILTO attribute of email links. If they find one, they'll add it to the list, and you may find yourself getting spammed. One solution is to replace the email link altogether, and replace it with an image of your email address. It's not very convenient for your visitors, but the upside is that you won't be target by the spam bots!

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