# Navigate to email button function

**URL:** <https://community.noloco.io/t/navigate-to-email-button-function/459>\
**Category:** Ask for Help\
**Created:** [March 27, 2024, 3:20pm UTC](https://community.noloco.io/t/navigate-to-email-button-function/459 "2024-03-27T15:20:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![onlymatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/48db29/32.png) [@onlymatt](https://community.noloco.io/u/onlymatt)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 3:20pm UTC](https://community.noloco.io/t/navigate-to-email-button-function/459/1 "2024-03-27T15:20:05Z")

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Is there a particular trick to getting the email function to work for “navigate to” on buttons? It just opens a blank tab for me.

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**Author:** ![darragh](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.noloco.io/darragh/32/12_2.png) [@darragh](https://community.noloco.io/u/darragh)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 3:41pm UTC](https://community.noloco.io/t/navigate-to-email-button-function/459/2 "2024-03-27T15:41:49Z")

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It should open your default email application, if you don’t have one set that could be the issue.

Here’s some more information:

> **[HTML Mailto: How to Use It](https://blog.hubspot.com/website/html-mailto)**
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> Learn how to use the HTML mailto function in your code to allow visitors to quickly send you emails.