Links to Email Addresses
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Hyperlinks can be created that automatically invoke the user's email program to send a message to a specific address. To do this, create a normal hyperlink using htmlHyperLink, but instead of specifying the URL of a website, include the keyword "mailto:" followed by the desired email address. The following code snippets are all functionally equivalent:  
 
   //  example 1  
page << htmlHyperLink( "mailto:info@dcmicro.com",  
              "Click here to send a message." ) ;  
 
   //  example 2  
htmlHyperLink  mail_link( "mailto:info@dcmicro.com" ) ;  
page << ( mail_link << "Click here to send a message." ) ;  
 
   //  example 3  
htmlHyperLink  mail_link ;  
mail_link.URL( "mailto:info@dcmicro.com" ) ;  
mail_link << "Click here to send a message." ;  
page << mail_link  ;  
 
Each of the above examples produce the following HTML output:  
 
<A HREF="mailto:info@dcmicro.com">Click here to send a message.</A>  
 
 



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