Invoke / click a mailto link with JQuery / JavaScript

Question

I\'d like to invoke a mailto link from JavaScript - that is I\'d like a method that allows me to open the email client on the users PC, exactly as if they had clicked on a n

Answer 1

Actually, there is a possibillity to avoid the empty page.

I found out, you can simply insert an iframe with the mailto link into the dom. This works on current Firefox/Chrome and IE (also IE will display a short confirm dialog).

Using jQuery, I got this:

var initMailtoButton = function()
{
    var iframe = $('');
    var button = $('#mailtoMessageSend');    
    if (button.length > 0) {            
        button.click(function(){
            // create the iframe
            $('body').append(iframe);
            //remove the iframe, we don't need it any more
            window.setTimeout(function(){
                iframe.remove();    
            }, 500);

        });
    }
}