From the course: HTML and CSS: Linking

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Linking to email addresses and email messages

Linking to email addresses and email messages

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Linking to email addresses and email messages

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- [Instructor] Email links are an easy way to have a simple method for someone to click a link in a webpage and have that email address open in their configured email application. Whether that's an online service like Gmail, or a desktop application, the email link still works. The only downside is that spammers like to scrape these email addresses from websites. Some people use JavaScript to help mix up the email address to avoid these spammers. That's a little bit beyond for this course, but making an email link is super helpful. They're used all over the web today. So let's go through how to write one of these. So inside of your Exercise Files folder, so you'll find links dot HTML in the Begin folder in zero one dash zero seven. Go ahead and open that up and look at line 20 where I said, "Or send me an email." And of course we're going to do something again with a href equals something in quotes, and a slash a here at the end. So what goes inside of the quotes? Well, as you saw…

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