opens the email client

<a href="mailto:address">

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Type
Inline

When the href attribute of the A element is set as follows, users can open the email client by clicking that link.

<a href="mailto:info@example.com">send mail</a>

Attribute Value Explanation
href=" " mailto:Email address "mailto:" and the Email address

Example

<p><a href="mailto:info@example.com">Open the email client</a></p>
Output

Open the email client

(The email address is a dummy. Please do not send email to the dummy address.)