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Start your free trialColin Lahsangah
1,088 Pointshow to you make a link to your email or gmail?
is there anyway i can make a link to my email?
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Matthew Carson
8,994 PointsIn an anchor tag's href attribute you can use 'mailto:' followed by an email address. This will open an new message draft in the user's default email program.
<a href="mailto:colin@example.com">Send email to Colin</a>
Steven Parker
231,198 PointsSteven Parker
231,198 PointsBefore doing this on pages accessible to the general public, consider that bots scour the internet looking specifically for tags like this to collect addresses for sending spam to.
Colin Lahsangah
1,088 PointsColin Lahsangah
1,088 Pointsthank you for your time.