Is there a good "email this" solution?

Question

I like the functionality of Share This, but I only need the "email this" option using my own custom icon. Is there a sensible way to do this?

Thanks!

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/271171/sending-emails-with-javascript — alex, Sep 17 '10 at 00:53

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 17 '10 at 00:29

2

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

answered Sep 17 '10 at 00:29

Eli

5,410
1
28
27

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 17 '10 at 00:14

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.

Peter Ajtai · Answer 3 · 2010-09-17T00:23:27.577

1

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

<a href="mailto:example@mail.com?body=Message body here.">

edited Sep 17 '10 at 00:23

answered Sep 17 '10 at 00:17

Peter Ajtai

55,701
13
120
138

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 Sep 17 '10 at 00:21
@Marcel, from the DTD: ``. Sorry, purist... – Matthew Flaschen Sep 17 '10 at 00:24
@Marcel - Thanks. I must have been trying to decide between `A element` and `anchor` and that came out. – Peter Ajtai Sep 17 '10 at 00:24
3

@Peter, you're not the only one, nearly everyone calls that "anchor". Even the earliest HTML manuals I dig up refer to as the "anchor element"... – code4life Sep 17 '10 at 00:28
@code, yeah, the very document @Marcel linked calls it an "anchor." – Matthew Flaschen Sep 17 '10 at 00:30
@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 Sep 17 '10 at 00:32
@code, I have to admit that I just wanted to write “anchor element”, but then I decided to look in the spec. – Marcel Korpel Sep 17 '10 at 00:35

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 17 '10 at 00:26

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

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

see it here

Is there a good "email this" solution?

4 Answers4