Question about mailto links in dreamweaver, firstly do you need the anchor link and the href bit, at

of the text line, in a minute i am going to give you some examples of some mailto links and i want to know which one's, are the right method of writing a simple mailto link, my main prob with the mailto command is! do you need the www, web address inside the link, here are my links, i will show you what i mean

mailto:rihanna.com

mailto:cassie.com

mailto:britney.com

mailto:robbiewilliams.com

mailto:comet.com

mailto:bbc.com

mailto:nhs.com

mailto:myspace

mailto:woolworths

mailto:whsmith

mailto:facebook.com

mailto:www.facebook.com

mailto:www.whsmith.com

mailto:www.robbie.com

mailto:www.defjam.com

mailto:www.bbc.com

mailto:www.nhs.com

mailto:www.pcworld.co.uk

mailto:www.currys.co.uk

mailto:www.vodafone.com

mailto:www.t-mobile.com

mailto:www.orange.com

mailto:www.debenhams.co.uk

all i want to know, is which one's are the way to do a mailto, which are false, does it mean, the mailto actually works, if the link goes to outlook express

Question about mailto links in dreamweaver, firstly do you need the anchor link and the href bit, at the front

I'm not sure why your tutor couldn't give you the correct syntax but...Mailto links do need the href tag...and all those are wrong because they don't point to an email address.

%26lt;a href="mailto:josh@yahoo.com"%26gt;josh@yahoo....

Question about mailto links in dreamweaver, firstly do you need the anchor link and the href bit, at the front

The mailto: protocol is setup in your registry (you're using windows)

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\mailto

It might be setup for outlook, depends on your setting.

Your mailto: statement should have LHS@RHS for email addresses. Those are just domains and won't work.

Example:

%26lt;a href="mailto:prince.william@monarchy.co.... here%26lt;/a%26gt;

Question about mailto links in dreamweaver, firstly do you need the anchor link and the href bit, at the front

None of your examples are correct. They are all URL's, or parts of URL's, not e-mail addresses.

The HTML syntax you need is ...

%26lt;a href="mailto:fred.smith@yahoo.com"%26gt;Fred Smith%26lt;/a%26gt;