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Email Address¶
Email Address is a field type for storing email addresses. This field type is validated for the content author, ensuring only proper email addresses are stored.
Template Tags¶
Basic Usage¶
In its standard form, an Email Address field can be used to output the raw email address:
{contact_email_address}
or as an email link:
<a href="mailto:{contact_email_address}">Send an Email</a>
or with other custom data and encoded by ExpressionEngine for spam protection (see encode for more details):
{encode="{contact_email_address}?subject=Some%20Subject" title="Send an Email to {first_name}"}
Mailto Modifier¶
The Email Address field can also conveniently output links for you using the mailto modifier, with optional titles and subjects. For spam protection, Mailto modifiers are encoded by default, but you can override this parameter if you wish. Here is an example with all of the options:
{contact_email_address:mailto title="Email about their dog" subject="Question about your dog" encode="no"}
outputs:
<a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=Question%20about%20your%dog">Email about their dog</a>
Parameters¶
title=¶
title="Email about their dog"
The link title. If not supplied, the email address will be used as the link title.
subject=¶
subject="Question about your dog"
A pre-set subject for the email. Most email clients will read and use this to pre-fill the subject line. It is URL-encoded automatically for you.
encode=¶
encode="no"
Values: yes/no. Whether or not to encode the email link to help prevent spammers from crawling the address. Enabled by default, so you only need to use it if you wish to keep the link from being encoded with JavaScript.