{mailto}

{mailto} automates the creation of a mailto: anchor links and optionally encodes them. Encoding emails makes it more difficult for web spiders to lift email addresses off of a site.

Note

Javascript is probably the most thorough form of encoding, although you can use hex encoding too.

Attribute Name Type Required Default Description

  address       string     Yes       *n/a*   The e-mail address
    text        string      No       *n/a*   The text to display, default is the e-mail address
   encode       string      No      *none*   How to encode the e-mail. Can be one of `none`, `hex`, `javascript` or `javascript_charcode`.
     cc         string      No       *n/a*   Email addresses to carbon copy, separate entries by a comma.
    bcc         string      No       *n/a*   Email addresses to blind carbon copy, separate entries by a comma
  subject       string      No       *n/a*   Email subject
 newsgroups     string      No       *n/a*   Newsgroups to post to, separate entries by a comma.
 followupto     string      No       *n/a*   Addresses to follow up to, separate entries by a comma.
   extra        string      No       *n/a*   Any extra information you want passed to the link, such as style sheet classes


{mailto address="me@example.com"}
<a href="mailto:me@example.com" >me@example.com</a>

{mailto address="me@example.com" text="send me some mail"}
<a href="mailto:me@example.com" >send me some mail</a>

{mailto address="me@example.com" encode="javascript"}
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
   eval(unescape('%64%6f% ... snipped ...%61%3e%27%29%3b'))
</script>

{mailto address="me@example.com" encode="hex"}
<a href="mailto:%6d%65.. snipped..3%6f%6d">&#x6d;&..snipped...#x6f;&#x6d;</a>

{mailto address="me@example.com" subject="Hello to you!"}
<a href="mailto:me@example.com?subject=Hello%20to%20you%21" >me@example.com</a>

{mailto address="me@example.com" cc="you@example.com,they@example.com"}
<a href="mailto:me@example.com?cc=you@example.com,they@example.com" >me@example.com</a>

{mailto address="me@example.com" extra='class="email"'}
<a href="mailto:me@example.com" class="email">me@example.com</a>

{mailto address="me@example.com" encode="javascript_charcode"}
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
    {document.write(String.fromCharCode(60,97, ... snipped ....60,47,97,62))}
</script>

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