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I am having problems using the following method to open the default mail client using a javascript function.
It works fine in IE + chrome but not in firefox (nothing happens when clicked):
function openemail() {
document.location = "mailto:martyn@example.com;"
}
<li><a href="javascript:openemail();"><img src="images/linkimage.gif" /></a></li>
Can anyone explain why this might be occurring? and hopefully point me in the right direction. All help most appreciated!
[edited by: eelixduppy at 4:36 pm (utc) on Feb. 10, 2009]
[edit reason] disabled smileys [/edit]
Here's the code I used that worked:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled</title>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<ul>
<li><a href="javascript:openemail();">There is not "javascript:" protocol</a></li>
<li><a href="mailto:martyn@example.com">This is the right way to do it</a></li>
<li><a href="mailto:martyn@example.com" id="emailLink">This is another way to do it</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
function openemail() {
document.location = "mailto:martyn@example.com;"
}
window.onload = function () {
// Attach event handler
var el = document.getElementById('emailLink');
el.onclick = function () {
document.location = el.href;
return false; // this prevents the href from being followed
}
};
</script>
</body>
</html>
[edited by: Fotiman at 6:04 pm (utc) on Feb. 10, 2009]
