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Answer 1

+1 A:

The simplest method is a mailto link. This will often open in a desktop client. However, Firefox lets you configure it to use a web service, there are extensions (e.g. ChromeMailer) to do the same in other browsers.

It's a little more complicated if you want to send the email from your server.

Matthew Flaschen 2010-09-17 00:14:20

Answer 2

+1 A:

The simplest is to use JS to populate an A element:

<a href="mailto:[email protected]?body=Message body here.">

Peter Ajtai 2010-09-17 00:17:19

Such an element is called an [‘a element’](http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#edef-A), not an ‘a anchor’ (sorry, purist).

Marcel Korpel 2010-09-17 00:21:39

@Marcel, from the DTD: `<!ELEMENT A - - (%inline;)* -(A) -- ` **anchor** `-->`. Sorry, purist...

Matthew Flaschen 2010-09-17 00:24:28

@Marcel - Thanks. I must have been trying to decide between `A element` and `anchor` and that came out.

Peter Ajtai 2010-09-17 00:24:34

@Peter, you're not the only one, nearly everyone calls that "anchor". Even the earliest HTML manuals I dig up refer to <A> as the "anchor element"...

code4life 2010-09-17 00:28:31

@code, yeah, the very document @Marcel linked calls it an "anchor."

Matthew Flaschen 2010-09-17 00:30:20

Ahh... right from wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_element#Anchor

code4life 2010-09-17 00:30:35

@Matthew: hehe, you're almost right, I read a bit [further in the spec](http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#idx-anchor-1), which implies that every `a` element *defines* an anchor, if there's at least one of the attributes 'id', 'name' or 'href' (which is the case here). Only when all three are absent, the `a` element doesn't specify an anchor.

Marcel Korpel 2010-09-17 00:32:31

@code, I have to admit that I just wanted to write “anchor element”, but then I decided to look in the spec.

Marcel Korpel 2010-09-17 00:35:26

Answer 3

A:

<span class="st_email_button" displayText="Email"></span>

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://w.sharethis.com/button/buttons.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
<script type="text/javascript">
        stLight.options({
                publisher:'12345'
        });
</script>

see it here

Zenofo 2010-09-17 00:26:26

Answer 4

+2 A:

Add This email-only option

You can create an email-only popup form. This will not affect other AddThis buttons on the page.

Looks simple enough to me

Eli 2010-09-17 00:29:07

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