Open page with html form and then pre-fill it

Question

I would like to create a .html file with a link to gmail.com. When clicking the link, I would like to have my email address automatically filled in as the undermake. I would like to use JavaScript for this. That is, I would like to insert text from a JavaScript variable.

I noticed on the source code for the login page for Gmail that there is the following:

<label for="Email"><strong class="email-label">Username</strong></label> 
<input type="email" spellcheck="false"  
name="Email" id="Email" value=""
>

So, I guess that, my question is : how can I give a value to Email in this form on the gmail login page?

Answer 1

It looks like you can specify an email address in the URL for gmail:

https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLoginAuth?Email=email@example.com