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Kushal
Kushal

Reputation: 2791

mailto link is not working in Chrome Browser (Version :18.0.1025.152 m)

mailto link is not working in Google Chrome browser (Ver:18.0.1025.152 m)

<a href="mailto:[email protected][email protected]&[email protected]&subject=Summer%20Party&body=You%20are%20invited%20to%20a%20big%20summer%20party!">Send mail!</a>

I used the above code in ff and chrome. It works fine in ff but not in chrome And you can test this link also. I think it is problem with chrome settings. Anyone know how to change settings?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 34769

Answers (5)

Kirk Strobeck
Kirk Strobeck

Reputation: 18589

This fixed mine .. Set your default email reader.

http://see.kirkstrobeck.com/VD7s

Upvotes: -1

Rajesh Hegde
Rajesh Hegde

Reputation: 2822

This is because chrome handles the mailto in different way. You can got to chrome://settings/handlers and make sure that which is the default handler. In your case it will be none. Now go to gmail.com. You should see something like this when you click on the button beside the bookmark button.

Set mailto in chrome

If you wish to open all email links through gmail then set use gmail. Now when you click on mailto button, chrome will automatically opens in gmail.

Upvotes: 7

nardocesar
nardocesar

Reputation: 91

It happens because your email default program doesn't working correctly.

Upvotes: 2

Ketola
Ketola

Reputation: 2767

You can check which program is mapped to handle mailto: links by entering chrome://settings/handlers. It could well be that if the mailto: handler is somehow misconfigured, Chrome silently fails on mailto: links.

More information on handlers, including allowing websites to handle special links is available at http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1382847

For what it's worth, mailto: link in the W3Schools example works without problems with Chrome 19.0.1084.41 (Official Build 134854) beta-m and Outlook 2010 under Windows 7 Professional (64-bit).

Upvotes: 6

Jerome
Jerome

Reputation: 11

It is not because of the Chrome Settings... Chrome is more specific for the Html and CSS, so your problem is probably that one of your 's is going over the link or image if you're trying to use an image as a mailto command. Once you are on the page you are trying to make this work right click and choose "inspect element" and check if another element is going over your link... Then in Css fix that and your mailto link will work...

Hope this helps

website design

Upvotes: -3

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