Jquery popup when mailto link is clicked

Question

I have this bit of code but it's not doing what I want.

Whenever someone clicks on a mailto link, a popup will display the following message 'This is the message.' So far nothing is happening

$('a[href^=mailto:]').click(function () { 
    var x=window.confirm('This is the message.');
    var val = false;
    if (x)
        val = true;
    else
        val = false;
    return val;

});

Answer 1

You need quotes

  $('a[href^="mailto:"]')

And while we're at it how about just:

 var x=window.confirm('This is the message.');
 return x;

for the body of the function?

Answer 2

Try this:

$('a[href^="mailto:"]').click(function(){
    return confirm('This is the message.');
});