Email links

Not all links go to another webpage or site. Another type of link is an email link. Generally you may want to add a way for someone to contact you via email. There are two ways this can be done:

1. Type out the email address as plain text so people can copy it; or
2. Make the email address a hyperlink word.

Plain text

The easiest method for allowing people to contact you is to add your email address as text to your webpage.

'Please email with your comments or suggestions to: john.citizen@qed.qld.gov.au'

Mailto:

The second method is to repeat the above but make the address hypertext. This means that people can email you by clicking on the email address that will now appear as blue underlined text. This will automatically bring up their email program with the email address in the 'To' field.

The email tag is a variation on the hyperlink tag but instead of a web address you use mailto: and then the email address.

<a href='mailto:john.citizen@deta.qld.gov.au'>John Citizen</a>

Replace john.citizen@deta.qld.gov.au with your email address and the text between the tags can say anything. Generally you would have your name or your email address there.

A subject can be added to the email message by extending the link as shown:

<a href=mailto:john.citizen@deta.qld.gov.au?subject=
'Feedback from Moreton Bay Wetlands page'>John Citizen<a/>

Do not put spaces in this code.

Clicking on the John Citizen link would open an email dialog box that looked something like: