<a href="mailto:?"> creates a mailto

</a> closes a mailto

Not every link on the Web leads to another Web page. Often, pages include links that let people send email. This type of link is a "mailto," and is just as easy to build as a link to another page.

Remember how a regular link was made by sandwiching the linked words between the tags <a href="?"> and </a>? A mailto link is exactly the same, except you replace the "?" with "mailto:" and then insert an email address instead of a URL.

If your email address were monkeyboy@webmonkey.com, your HTML might read:

<a href="mailto:monkeyboy@webmonkey.com">

Send me mail!</a>

And on the page it would appear like this:

Send me mail!