Linking CSS button to email - How can it be done? - html

Question

I'm trying to link the submit button to be an email address. But can't seem to get it to work.
Any suggestions on what I may be doing wrong?
It looks like it works on first inspection, but whenever I upload it to the site it doesn't work =S
Here is the HTML:
<input type="submit" value="Get In Touch" name="submit" class="submit" id="submit">
Below is the CSS:
body {
font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
padding: 100px;
font-size: 13px;
}
div {
background: #fff;
margin: 0 auto;
width: 200px;
padding: 100px;
text-align: center;
/* border-radius */
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
border-radius: 5px;
/* box-shadow */
-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0,0,0,0.2) 0px 1px 3px;
-moz-box-shadow: rgba(0,0,0,0.2) 0px 1px 3px;
box-shadow: rgba(0,0,0,0.2) 0px 1px 3px;
}
input[type="submit"] {
height: 50px;
padding: 0 48px; margin: 10px auto 0 auto;
background: #090a0b;
border: 0;
text-transform: uppercase;
font-family: "Open Sans";
font-size: 24px;
color: #fff;
font-weight: 400;
cursor: pointer;
-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease;
-moz-transition: all 0.2s ease;
-o-transition: all 0.2s ease;
transition: all 0.2s ease;
opacity: 1;
-webkit-appearance: none;
border: solid 1px #fff;
-webkit-border-radius: 1px;
-moz-border-radius: 1px;
border-radius: 1px;
background: transparent;
}

Answer 1

If you really want to use submit button inside <a> than you could use this instead.without <a> tag.
HTML
<input type="submit" class='button' value="Mail US" onclick="window.location.href='mailto:email#email.co'">
CSS
.button {
font: bold 11px Arial;
text-decoration: none;
background-color: #EEEEEE;
color: #333333;
padding: 2px 6px 2px 6px;
border-top: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
border-right: 1px solid #333333;
border-bottom: 1px solid #333333;
border-left: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
}
Fiddle HERE: Fiddle
Otherwise you could just use <a> tags instead and cover it with CSS.
Both are great approaches

Answer 2

Try this way:
html
<a class="button" href="mailto:email#email.co">Get In Touch</a>
css
.button {
font: bold 11px Arial;
text-decoration: none;
background-color: #EEEEEE;
color: #333333;
padding: 2px 6px 2px 6px;
border-top: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
border-right: 1px solid #333333;
border-bottom: 1px solid #333333;
border-left: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
}
Just use a tag and apply some css

Answer 3

You could use an <a> tag and style it, or a <button> (which is sometimes fubar in earlier IE), or, if you need to use a form you could do this
<form action="mailto:user#user.com">
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Email">
</form>

Answer 4

If you are trying to submit a form full of data to an email address, a simple mailto is not what you are going to need. All mailto does is open the native email application on your computer and fill out the "To:" field with the email address you put in the href.
To submit an email with form data you would need an email handler. In PHP you can simply attach the $_POST data to the php mail() function. Here is a good tutorial on that.
Another option would to use a hosted solution like emailmeform. Or even a javascript mailing solution like addthis or sharethis. They have APIs available to allow you to input data into the email being sent.
Hope this helps!