HTML and CSS Reference
In-Depth Information
To write the e-mail link for Catherine Adler:
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1.
Return to the
mpl.htm
file in your text editor.
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2.
Directly after the opening
<script>
element you added earlier, insert the follow-
ing command:
document.write(“<aƒhref=
'
mailto:cadler@mpl.gov
'
>”);
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3.
Directly before the closing
</script>
tag, insert the following command:
document.write(“</a>”);
Figure 10-10 shows the revised code in the file.
Figure 10-10
inserting several document.write() commands
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4.
Save your changes and then reopen
mpl.htm
in your Web browser.
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5.
Hover your mouse pointer over the e-mail address to verify that it is a link. As
shown in Figure 10-11, the link to the e-mail address should appear in the brows-
er's status bar.
Figure 10-11
viewing an e-mail link
e-mail address is
a hypertext link
t
ext of the
e-mail URL
Trouble?
If the link does not appear, verify that you included the opening and
closing quotation marks in the JavaScript commands you just entered.
