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Mailto - Creating Email Links on the Web

Using mailto:, you can create links that, when clicked, start a new email message automatically from any HTML page. Find out how mailto: links work, and how you can even define default subjects and body text — easily.

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Make it Easy for Web Site Visitors to Email You
Find out how to use the mailto: HTML tag to get feedback from your web site via email.

Elements of a Mailto: URL
You can specify default Subjects, body text and more in email links. Here's how to specify a default for almost any message part of mail sent via a mailto: link.

How to Construct Mailto: URLs in a Foolproof Way
Encoding mailto URLs correctly with and and what not is a bit cumbersome. Fortunately, JavaScript helps out.

Mailto URL Encoder
The mailto URL encoder does the dirty work of composing perfect and perfectly encoded mailto: URLs (with default subject, body text, bcc and what not) for you.

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