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Ctrl_Alt_Defeat
Ctrl_Alt_Defeat

Reputation: 4009

How can I launch an email from a website?

I am developing a seat plan website. When a desk is clicked I get the info of the person sitting at the desk fine (name,phone,email). Now I want to have a email button beside the persons email address (similar to what lync 2011 had if anyone has seen it). On click off the button I would like to launch a new email in outlook and have the persons email address in the To field.

My solution is being developed in Visual Studio 2010, and uses C#, ASP, XML and Javascript/JQuery/JSON.

Does anyone have any advice on how to achieve this - any links or sample source would be great.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 452

Answers (5)

SaiKhuan
SaiKhuan

Reputation: 21

Do you want to link it to your default mail composer? You could use html anchor like this

<a href='mailto:[email protected]'>Email</a>

Hope this helps.

Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Naftali
Naftali

Reputation: 146350

mailto:[email protected]

Put that in a link. and viola you are good ^_^

Example:

<a href="mailto:[email protected]">Email Harry</a>

See example here with a button (as described in comments below): http://jsfiddle.net/maniator/DqYKw

Upvotes: 3

abmv
abmv

Reputation: 7108

you meant to use mailto Protocol / MailTo Syntax

Upvotes: 0

Johann du Toit
Johann du Toit

Reputation: 2667

If I understand you correctly what you want is when somebody clicks the link/button they have a new E-Mail from outlook come up with the E-Mail in the to bar and they just type their message and hit send ? If so most if not all browsers recognize the mailto: protocol.

So if you make a link with <a href="mailto:[email protected]">Mail me</a> . The browser will open up a new message screen addressed to mailto:[email protected].

Just watched out for bots that can crawl this information and use them for spam ....

Upvotes: 0

Justin Niessner
Justin Niessner

Reputation: 245479

It's as easy as using a mailto link:

<a href="mailto:[email protected]">Email!</a>

If you need more details, check out this beginner's tutorial from about.com.

Upvotes: 0

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