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Mailto is the URI scheme for email addresses. It is used in web pages as a link that opens a new email message to the specified to-address in the user's default email client.

Mailto is the URI scheme that targets the user's client from within the browser. Clicking a mailto link creates a new email message in the user's email client, optionally with to, cc, subject, and body pre-populated.

A mailto link can be inserted into a webpage using a standard link:

  • The simplest mailto link specifying a recipient addresses..

    <a href='mailto:someone@host.com'>Click to email</a>

  • Multiple recipients..

    <a href='mailto:nobody@host.com,nowhere@host.com'>Click to email</a>

  • Autofill the subject line..

    <a href='mailto:someone@host.com?subject=This%20is%20the%20subject'>Click to email</a>

  • Autofill the subject line and specify the email to be CC'd to..

    <a href='mailto:someone@host.com?cc=me@me.com&subject=Testing%20mailto&'>Click to email</a>

  • Mailto 3 people, with a BCC and a subject..

    <a href='mailto:someone@yoursite.com?cc=someoneelse@theirsite.com, another@thatsite.com, me@mysite.com&bcc=lastperson@theirsite.com&subject=Big%20News'>Click to email</a>

  • Autofill the subject line and body of the email with a linebreak..

    <a href='mailto:someone@host.com?subject=Readme&body=This%20is%20the%20first%20line%0D%0AThis%20is%20the%20second'>Click to email</a>

  • Add a reply-to address..

    <a href='mailto:someone@host.com?reply-to=me@me.com'>Click to email</a>

Special Character escaping

Within mailto URLs, the characters "?", "=", "&" are reserved.

Special characters that appear in addresses, headers or message contents must be encoded using a "%" followed by a two-digit hex number. See RFC3986 for a exhaustive description of URL encodings.

Space = %20             : = %3A         ] = %5D
Line Break = %0D%0A     ; = %3B         { = %7B
" = %22                 ' = %27         } = %7D
# = %23                 < = %3C         \ = %5C
$ = %24                 > = %3E         | = %7C
% = %25                 / = %2F         = = %3D
^ = %5E                 ? = %3F
& = &amp;               [ = %5B

8-bit characters in mailto URLs are forbidden.

More information

  • RFC 2368, which defines the mailto scheme.
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What is mailto´s URL on a webpage

if you have a email address on the webpage - mailto: then - is it possible to activate the mailto directly via URL - for example http://www.homepage.com/mailto:email@email.com URL and if putting the url directly into the browser then the mailto…
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Mailto: inside php and html table

I'm populating an html table with data from MySQL DB and I want to add a mailto function on the click of one of the columns. Problem is when I do it, the column is blank, but when I inspect it in the browser it shows up in the inspect panel. My…
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Use javascript to replace input value into mailto

I have to email some information and I can't use PHP unfortunately. I've set up an input to get the email address of a user.
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rails: how to let user send a html email

I want to let the user of my page send a html formated email to friends. Is this possible?
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What is "mailto:someone@example.com" in following HTML form example?

I am learning HTML from w3schools HTML Tutorial - The Best in Class Tutorial I come across one HTML form example which sends an email. Please note that currently neither do I nor w3schools is going for server side input processing, so you also don't…
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mailto: URL not working in jQuery bound event handler

I have an icon that when clicked will fire off a mailto: URL. Seems simple enough, but it's not working. When debugging I click the icon and the event handler does fire and executes the code within it, but then does nothing. Why doesn't this…
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How to add attachment to a mailto from my custom html/css contact form?

I've created a simple contact form with inputs like name, phone number.. And a file import (in order to add an attachment to the mail). All the informations are shown in the mail except the imported file. How to make it works please ?? a{ …
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I need to create a mailto link from PHP code

Ok, so at the moment my html form gathers data and posts it to a php form which then creates and sends an email (following code), however now I need the form to create a mailto link so I can send it to a different mail account from my iphone6, any…
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Mailto form for idea

I am wanting to use a mailto form like the one below Name:

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Im looking for a simple mailto button

Im looking for a mailto button that will have a built in message that is emailed to a preset email address. eg: You see a button that says confirm when you click that button it sends an email message directly from the browser to the email address…
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mail to in an existing php code

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    How to use the Mailto function in PHP

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