Mailto – HTML

In order to somehow dilute the design theme, let’s look at another layout lesson today – a lot of time has passed since the previous post about CSS hover effects. This note will be devoted to the issue of creating a link to mail in html. All this is implemented using the usual A tag, which, despite its simplicity, can be used not only to create hyperlinks, but also has several interesting nuances.

The basic syntax looks like this:

<a href=”mailto:youremail@somesite.com”> write to us </a>
Here, as the href attribute, write the phrase mailto and the mail where you want to send the message. Inside the tag is the link text that the user will click on.

The problem with this design is not the best UI / UX solution for users, because clicking on a link performs actions that not everyone likes. It’s like with a PDF document when it immediately opens in the browser.

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