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mailto: not working in hyperlinks in Forms

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Updated January 30, 2015

asked on January 30, 2015 • Show version history

On most of our forms, we've been putting in an Email address in a couple of places for questions, etc. However, when I highlight text in a form, and using the hyperlink feature insert "mailto:address@somewhere.com" as the formatted Email address, the link only takes me to somewhere.com.

Is there something different I need to do, for formatting an Email address within a form, specifically in an HTML section?

Thanks, as always, to anyone who can help!

Marty Gaffney - Network Technician

Town of Okotoks

@ablguy

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replied on January 30, 2015

I see what's happening now. If you insert a link with the insert hyperlink button from the toolbar (when inserting HTML, it automatically prepends it with HTML (I saw this when I went over to HTML view).

Good to go - thanks as always!

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replied on January 30, 2015 • Show version history

This is an example of how it should be done using HTML:

<a href="mailto:manish@simplygraphix.com">Send me an email</a>

It could also be your browser though. The interpretation of the mailto attribute is left up to each browser to interpret. Have you tried a different browser?

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replied on January 30, 2015

I haven't, although I haven't actually tried the <a href></a> tags in the actual HTML (I was only using the insert hyperlink feature in the actual toolbar when inserting HTML.

Let me give both of these a try (straight HTML and testing in a different browser), and I'll get back to you - thanks much!

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