Title: PHP/HTML for email sharing button help?
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# PHP/HTML for email sharing button help?

 *  Resolved [amandathewebdev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amandathewebdev/)
 * (@amandathewebdev)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/phphtml-for-email-sharing-button-help/)
 * Hi all,
 * I have this line of code for sharing a link by email. It works great, but it 
   opens up a new browser tab, which I don’t want. I know it’s the JavaScript, `
   window.open` but when I remove that, I mess the whole thing up because I’m still
   new to PHP. Any help would be appreciated!
 * `<li><a class="email social-icon" href="#" onclick="javascript: window.open('
   <?php echo 'mailto:'. $to . "?body=" . $share_url; ?>'); return false;" title
   ="Email"><i class="fa fa-envelope-o"></i></a></li>`

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 *  Thread Starter [amandathewebdev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amandathewebdev/)
 * (@amandathewebdev)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/phphtml-for-email-sharing-button-help/#post-7334591)
 * If anyone is looking for the solution to this:
 * `<a class="email social-icon" href="mailto:enter_your_friend_email@domain.com?
   body=<?php echo $share_url;?>" title="Email"><i class=”fa fa-envelope-o"></i>
   </a>`

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 * Last reply from: [amandathewebdev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amandathewebdev/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/phphtml-for-email-sharing-button-help/#post-7334591)
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