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How do I add a 'mailto' link to figma prototype?

  • November 11, 2024
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Pam

Hi all, I am working on my portfolio and want to add external links to some parts of it. For the most part, I figured out how to do it. However, I couldn’t find any resource on how to add a ā€˜mailto’ link to the prototype.

I’d appreciate it if someone who has done it before could lead me the way.

Thanks!

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  • Figmate
  • November 12, 2024

Hey @Pam, I appreciate you getting in touch about this.

As it stands right now, we don’t have a built-in way to do that, sadly. However, it sounds like an awesome idea for a feature request. I actually noticed someone in our community mentioned something similar not too long ago here

Feel free to check out their post? If you like the idea, please drop a vote on it!

Thanks again for reaching out!


tank666
  • November 12, 2024

Create an interaction with the ā€œOpen linkā€ action and paste the email along with the mailto scheme into the input field: mailto:test@example.com.


KennLucas
  • March 5, 2025

The open link knteraction is a decent patch, but…

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that only helps in presentation mode.

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an inline text link will launch the link from editor view

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so where we need to give direct links to developer resources and documentation, no one could use that link from editor view šŸ™„

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this really is one of those small things that should be a basic feature. A ā€œmailtoā€ link should not get converted to a ā€œcopy to clipboardā€ action. If we wanted that, we would have made it different.