Open the href mailto link in new tab / window

Question

I have an image which when click, I want to link to a mailto:

Answer 1

I know this is an old question, but this thread had the best set of answers if found. I modified Marcos's Answer above to also close the blank tab that is created if the client has an external mail handler

reference answer

JS (w\ jQuery for event handlers)

$(document).on('click', 'a[href^=mailto]', function(e) {
  var checkClose, checkLoaded, event, href, i, len, loadEvents, results, t, wndw;
  e.preventDefault();
  href = this.href;
  wndw = window.open(href, 'mail');
  checkClose = function() {
    console.log('checkClose');
    try {
      wndw.location.href;
      return wndw.close();
    } catch (error) {
      return console.log('webmail');
    }
  };
  t = setTimeout(checkClose, 5000);
  try {
    checkLoaded = function() {
      console.log('loaded');
      clearTimeout(t);
      return t = setTimeout(checkClose, 2000);
    };
    wndw.onload = checkLoaded;
    loadEvents = ["DomContentLoaded", "load", "beforeunload", "unload"];
    results = [];
    for (i = 0, len = loadEvents.length; i < len; i++) {
      event = loadEvents[i];
      results.push(wndw.addEventListener(event, checkLoaded));
    }
    return results;
  } catch (error) {
    return checkLoaded();
  }
});

jsfiddle