How To Create an Email "mailto" link using Kupu

— filed under: mailto, email, kupu

a better choice would be to modify kupu to add a mailto option, but until that's done (or implemented on your site)...

Navigate to the document you want to add the email link to and select the Edit button
Select the "HTML" button in the kupu (text editor) bar in the body text area
Note: before selecting the button note where in the page you would like to insert the mailto link (i.e., remember a block of text that can help you find the location, since it will look pretty gnarly in html (for this example, I'll place the mailto after gnarly gnarly dude (dude@info-x-change.org)
place the cursor in the html where you'd like to add the link and insert the following text:
```
<a href="mailto:dude@info-x-change.org">gnarly dude (dude@info-x-change.org)</a>
```
Note that the text between the brackets of the tag (i.e., <a>[this text]</a>) is what will appear hyperlinked in the final page; for mailto's, it's convnetion to state both the name and email address of the recipient
(don't forget to substitute the actual title and emaill address you want to use)
save the document and view.

If you've done everything correctly, your email link will show with a pretty little email icon