# Types / Email

# Email

**Scalar**
## Email

<p>
    The `Email` scalar type represents email addresses as specified by the 
    [HTML living standard](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/input.html#valid-e-mail-address) with some 
    minor modifications to confirm slightly closer to RFC 2822 (e.g. periods before the @ symbol).
</p>
<p>
    It's implemented using the following Perl-compatible regular expression:
    `/^(?!.*\.@)(?!.*\.\.)[a-zA-Z0-9.!#$%&'*+\/=?^_`{|}~-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9-]+(\.[a-zA-Z0-9-]+)*\.[a-zA-Z]{2,}$/`
</p>