The process of adding an email link within your web content is very similar to adding a link to an external website.
For the website user, clicking on this link will open a new email message addressed to a specific recipient.
How to Add an Email Link
- While in the edit mode, select the text that will become the hyperlink.
- Remember, email address links must always be fully revealed, such as
web-team@iup.edu.
- Click the Insert Link icon (
) on the toolbar. The link toolbar will appear (see below).
- Change "http://" to "mailto:" (without the quote marks, but with the colon—see below).
- Type or paste the email address directly after mailto: Do not leave a space between the two.
Important! If you have copied the email address that you want to paste, do not right-click and paste. An Ektron bug will cause this to not work, even though it will appear to be a real link. Instead, either use
the keyboard shortcut CTRL+V (Windows) or Command+V (Mac) to paste the copied address, or manually type the address.
- Click away from the toolbar, and the email link will now be in place.