Add an email link

Modified on Fri, 7 Jul, 2023 at 10:11 AM

Add an email link (written instructions)

This tutorial shows you how to add an email link to your website, which will open a patient's email app for them when they click it.

Ensure that you are logged into your website. The black admin toolbar should be visible at the top of the screen.

The Home page of a GPsurgery.net website, with the admin toolbar visible at the top of the screen.

Go to the page you'd like to add the email link to, and select Edit at the bottom of the page.

Edit link at bottom of a page

In the editor, select where you'd like to add the link in the main text box.

The main text box

Add the email address that you would like to make an email link.

An email address typed into the main text box

Highlight the full email address, then click the link icon in the editor toolbar.

When you select the link icon, "mailto:" will automatically be added to the email address.

The mailto link in the add link box

Select the blue enter arrow to add this link to the email address.

The enter box.

When you are happy with your changes, select the blue Update box.

The Update button in the Publish box

Your email link will now be added to the page, which will automatically open a patient's emails app when clicked.

The email address added to the page with a mailto link.


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