HTML Email Button-CodePudding

very new here so I'm sure I'm missing something obvious but I would like an HTML button that opens a users native email client with the To: field prepopulated.

<form>
  <button   action="mailto:[email protected]" type="submit"> Contact</button>
</form>

Here is the accompanying CSS:

.button-21 {
  align-items: center;
  appearance: none;
  background-color: #3eb2fd;
  background-image: linear-gradient(1deg, #4f58fd, #149bf3 99%);
  background-size: calc(100%   20px) calc(100%   20px);
  border-radius: 100px;
  border-width: 0;
  box-shadow: none;
  box-sizing: border-box;
  color: #ffffff;
  cursor: pointer;
  display: inline-flex;
  font-family: CircularStd, sans-serif;
  font-size: 1rem;
  height: auto;
  justify-content: center;
  line-height: 1.5;
  padding: 6px 20px;
  position: relative;
  text-align: center;
  text-decoration: none;
  transition: background-color 0.2s, background-position 0.2s;
  user-select: none;
  -webkit-user-select: none;
  touch-action: manipulation;
  vertical-align: top;
  white-space: nowrap;
}

.button-21:active,
.button-21:focus {
  outline: none;
}

.button-21:hover {
  background-position: -20px -20px;
}

.button-21:focus:not(:active) {
  box-shadow: rgba(40, 170, 255, 0.25) 0 0 0 0.125em;

CodePudding user response：

action is a form's attribute for submission. You should move the action attribute from the button to the form.

.button-21 {
  align-items: center;
  appearance: none;
  background-color: #3eb2fd;
  background-image: linear-gradient(1deg, #4f58fd, #149bf3 99%);
  background-size: calc(100%   20px) calc(100%   20px);
  border-radius: 100px;
  border-width: 0;
  box-shadow: none;
  box-sizing: border-box;
  color: #ffffff;
  cursor: pointer;
  display: inline-flex;
  font-family: CircularStd, sans-serif;
  font-size: 1rem;
  height: auto;
  justify-content: center;
  line-height: 1.5;
  padding: 6px 20px;
  position: relative;
  text-align: center;
  text-decoration: none;
  transition: background-color 0.2s, background-position 0.2s;
  user-select: none;
  -webkit-user-select: none;
  touch-action: manipulation;
  vertical-align: top;
  white-space: nowrap;
}

.button-21:active,
.button-21:focus {
  outline: none;
}

.button-21:hover {
  background-position: -20px -20px;
}

.button-21:focus:not(:active) {
  box-shadow: rgba(40, 170, 255, 0.25) 0 0 0 0.125em;
}

<form action="mailto:[email protected]">
  <button  type="submit">Contact</button>
</form>

CodePudding user response：

Try this :)

<form>
  <button   onclick="location.href='mailto:[email protected]';" type="button"> Contact</button>
</form>

CodePudding user response：

As well as a button inside a form, you can also use a link for this:

<a href="mailto:[email protected]">Contact</a>

CodePudding user response：

<form action="mailto:[email protected]">
        <button    type="submit"> Contact</button>
</form>