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Dean.DePue
Dean.DePue

Reputation: 1013

Create a mailto link with Razor

I have a view with a model that has an email address. How do I create an anchor? to allow the user to simply click on it an open Outlook? I could create an anchor manually but then how do I include the email address?

<a href="mailto:" + Model.CreatorEmail >Email</a>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2220

Answers (3)

JsonStatham
JsonStatham

Reputation: 10354

Adding the email address attribute to your model:

  [EmailAddress(ErrorMessage = "Must be a valid email address")]

And using a Html.DisplayFor in your razor view

  @Html.DisplayFor(x => x.EmailAddress)

Should render it as an a tag with

mailto:

before it's value

Upvotes: 0

user1023602
user1023602

Reputation:

Just use the @ syntax

<a href="mailto:@(Model.CreatorEmail)">Email</a>

Upvotes: 4

Dean.DePue
Dean.DePue

Reputation: 1013

I found an answer to my problem:

@{ var email = "mailto:" + Model.CreatorEmail;}
            <a href="@email">Email</a>

Upvotes: 0

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