{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.
Technical 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 |
Example 8.23. {mailto} example lines followed by the result
{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">m&..snipped...#x6f;m</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%2Cthey@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>
See also
escape,
{textformat}
and
obfuscating email addresses.
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