Title: Email column issue
Last modified: August 24, 2021

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# Email column issue

 *  Resolved [inswebdev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inswebdev/)
 * (@inswebdev)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-column-issue/)
 * (when viewing the link click the ‘team leaders’ button to view the table in question.
 * Using the free version – I am trying to setup a mailto link for the E-Mail Address
   column.
 * When I created a link I did mailto:email@email.com and made the text [email@email.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-column-issue/email@email.com?output_format=md)
 * However when viewing this on the page, when you click on the email link it just
   takes you to the base domain site (email.com).
 * Then I just tried removing the link and just putting in the email text…thinking
   it would convert it into a mailto: link automatically but it didn’t.
 * And then I tried to use the pipe format so I typed in the cell ’email@email.com
   ||email@email.com’ and it just showed that text as is on the table.
 * I feel like I’ve done everything here: [https://wpdatatables.com/documentation/column-features/e-mail-link-columns/](https://wpdatatables.com/documentation/column-features/e-mail-link-columns/)
 * Please advise.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Femail-column-issue%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [wpDataTables](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpdatatables/)
 * (@wpdatatables)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-column-issue/#post-14802809)
 * Hi inswebdev,
 * Sorry for inconvenience,
    Yes that is right. Link that you provide from our docs
   are for data tables, not simple table because simple table have own logic.
 * At the moment you can insert email links over HTML, not over link editor(we need
   to implement logic for emails as well)
 * So to create email links in simple tables please use this HTML
 * `<a href="mailito:email@email.com">email@email.com</a>`
 * Thank you for reporting this.
 * We appreciate that.
 * Best regards.

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