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anon
anon

Reputation:

How well is mailto: supported?

I got an email saying that my mailto button wasn't working on Win8.

<input onclick="open('mailto:[email protected]?subject='+document.getElementById('subject').value,'_self');" type="button" id="btn" value="Email Me">

I'm wondering what kind of browser support exists for the 'mailto:' href. Furthermore, since I am triggering this via javascript, could a 'triggered' method be breaking this in windows8?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3816

Answers (2)

Rory O&#39;Kane
Rory O&#39;Kane

Reputation: 30388

Looking at the References section of the Wikipedia article on the mailto URI scheme, I see that mailto was defined in RFC 2368, which was published in July 1998. The spec was also updated in RFC 6068 in October 2010. Since mailto has been defined for so long, and I've never personally seen a modern computer that it doesn't work on, it probably has global support by now.

Upvotes: 3

napo
napo

Reputation: 869

mailto is one of the oldest tags out there. It's the open part that's going to give you fits.

Why not style a link to make it look like a button and do this instead?

<a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=Something">Email me</a>

Now, I know that you want to put a subject in there, and that's cool. You might just want to do that with jQuery instead at that point, or creating a function that hrefs to mailto instead instead.

Upvotes: 1

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