Email Links

On our "details.asp" page we have two items displayed for each person: an email address and their website.

Here’s how to make them active links. You have to open up the HTML to do this. Scroll down to where the email link is. And as of right now it’s not a link at all. So put the tags around it like this:

<%=(rsGetDetails.Fields.Item("email").Value)%>

Then just copy <%=(rsGetDetails.Fields.Item("email").Value)%> and paste it after "mailto:". Now your final code should be like this:

<a href="mailto:<%=(rsGetDetails.Fields.Item("email").Value)%>">
<%=(rsGetDetails.Fields.Item("email").Value)%>
</a>

What this does is grab the email from the database twice. Once to be displayed to the user, which is between the tags. And then the other is in the actual mailto:emailaddress code.

URL Links

The same thing pretty much applies for URL’s as well. Except rather than using "mailto:" you’ll use "http://". In our case the code will need to look like this:

<a href=http://<%=(rsGetDetails.Fields.Item(url").Value)%>" target="blank">
<%=(rsGetDetails.Fields.Item("url").Value)%>
</a>

Target="_blank" just means that the website will open in a new window.