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How to Send E-mail From an HTML Page

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Summary: E-mail can be sent from an HTML page by creating a hypertext reference link that is followed by the e-mail address. Use a regular text editor to send e-mail from an HTML page with tips from a software developer in this free video on using the Internet.

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Dave Andrews is a software developer with a business and Web site selling programs and other computer services in Franklin, Tenn. Having worked in the IT industry for more than 8...read more

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"Hi, my name is Dave Andrews. Today I'm going to show you how to send an e-mail from and HTML web page. Let's go to the computer and we're going to open up an HTML page that I have right here. Let's just open it with a regular text editor. I'm going to kind of clear it out, make it a little simpler to where we just have a body tag and that's all. Now let's put a link inside of our HTML page. Its an anchor who's hypertext reference is a mailto link. M A I L T O colon. Now right after that mailto, you type the address that you want to send an e-mail to. I'm going to type my e-mail address. Let me maximize this as well. And let's close out our link and I'm going to type in the text to that link. So here we have a link that says mailto:support@daveandrews.org. I'm going to save this. Let's open it up in our web browser. Here's our link and all that we have to do is click this link. This brings up a new e-mail message. My name is Dave Andrews and I've just showed you how to send an e-mail from an HTML web page."

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