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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.
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
"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."
eHow Article: How to Send E-mail From an HTML Page