Create email link

[ramiroelliot]

Hi everyone,

I want to create an email link to click on, how can I create it? I'm new, so the simpler the better. Thanks in advance!

[mhsuffolk]

Add mailto: to the front of the email thus
you@here.com
would be

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mailto:you@here.com

[14Steve14]

You can also include the subject line if you wish. Here is a link to a handy website that will explain other things that can also be added into the email links.

https://css-tricks.com/snippets/html/mailto-links/

[heatherbell]

I want to create an email link to click on

Possibly better practice would be to link to contact_us.php to mitigate against bots and scrapers used for spamming.

Just sharing a quick tip here in case it becomes useful to others.

There can be times when publishing the store e-mail address in the store might be desired or required.
Using the STORE_OWNER_EMAIL_ADDRESS from the database or using just plain text to output the e-mail address can make it easy for scraper bots to collect it for bad reasons - spamming.

Instead of using:
example@domain.com
use:
example@domain.com
or
example<!-- HTML comment -->@<!-- HTML comment -->domain.com

Both of these will appear as example@domain.com to your customers but bots/scrapers will usually scrape the HTML and neither example&#64;domain&#46;com nor example<!-- HTML comment -->@<!-- HTML comment -->domain.com will reach your inbox!