Question

I am doing a basic html page, using a free web template that I found online. In the “contact” section, I would like to set it up such that

<a href= "mailto:[e-mail]"> Myself </a> 

allows emailing to myself from the page directly. However, when I click on the link, nothing comes up, no emailing program… nothing. Could it have something to do with the fact that I got a free web template with it’s own included css file, which could be overriding whatever emailing functionality the html might provide? This seems relatively simple, but for whatever reason nothing happens when I click the email link.

Answer 1

The “mailto:” function opens a new e-mail in your default e-mail client. Since it looks like you are using GMail, then I am just guessing (correct me if I’m wrong) but you are using the web interface to compose and check you gmail messages and don’t have a default email client set up. Either setup your default client (Outlook, Thunderbird, Mail, etc) OR if you are using Chrome web browser you can set it as your default gmail client (Making Gmail your default mail application).