How to set the share by mail on the footer part of the website.

[fmorfini]

Hi,

I'm having issues with the email/envelope icon in the footer. When I click on it, I would expect to generate a new email message either on a local email app (e.g., I'm using mail.app from a Mac) or some other way, but instead a new blank tab opens up on the web browser. I'm using the latest google chrome version 127.0.6533.100 (Official Build) (x86_64).

This is my repo and the website. Note, that I've currently removed the envelope icon to avoid issues on the live website, however the issue I was having can be reproduced by changing the following info on these fils:

/_data/icons_builder.yml (unchanged compared to the template):

mail:
  pre: "mailto:"
  icon: "fas fa-envelope"

/_data/social.yml:

share:
  email: true

/_data/icons.yml:

mail: f.morfini.work@gmail.com

Also, I tried to get around this issue by adding the email as plain text in the footer. I don't know if this is a separate issue, but the text I entered for footer_textin the _config.yml file isn't displaying in the website:

footer_text: >
  f.morfini.work@gmail.com
# Powered by <a href="https://jekyllrb.com/">Jekyll</a> with <a href="https://github.com/sylhare/Type-on-Strap">Type on Strap</a>

it does show up when I change the _includes/default/footer.liquid:

        {{ site.footer_text | default: "f.morfini@gmail.com" }}</p>

Any suggestions?
Thank you for putting out this great template!

[sylhare]

@fmorfini so the email share in /_data/social.yml is actually for the blog post:

To get it as part of the footer you can edit /_data/icons.yml

And then set the mail as:

mail: f.morfini.work@gmail.com

It's independent from the footer_text.

[sylhare]

@fmorfini I converted it to a discussion as it's a great question. You can click on Mark as answer on the response if it works and that helped you 👍

[fmorfini]

Thanks @sylhare ! ah I see. I'm not using the share option so that explains part of it. The email icon I'm having issues with is the one that appears in the footer (see screenshot). I've added back the envelop icon in my website and it should online now. When I click on it a new blank page appears

[sylhare]

I tried on your website and it seems to work now, when I click on
the mail software that I use does open up (Mail app on MacOS).

[fmorfini]

thanks for checking it out. mmm I see. I wonder if it's a specific to my local machine or OS (thou it's recent: I'm on a Mac running Ventura 13.6.7 and use Mail.app as well). this is what i get when i click on it. All the other icons (github, scholar, etc) work as expected

[sylhare]

It could be a security setting that might be off on your browser, that would explain why it opens a new blank page instead of opening the default email client.

[fmorfini]

makes sense. thanks for your inputs!