HTML: cannot open client e-mail app

Question

hi,

for some reason, the following code doesn't work. I don't understand where the issue is. I just want to open a client e-mail app to send an e-mail.

<a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=My Website&amp;body=This e-mail has been sent to inform you about my website website: www.mywebsite.com">Send an email to a friend</a>

• Safari visits the page "mailto:[email protected]?subject=Pa0Website&body=This%20e-mail%20has%20been%20sent%20to%20inform%20you%20about%20%20website:%20"

• Chrome doesn't do anything

I haven't tested on other browsers so far.

Thanks

Answer 1

You don't get to decide how the client deals with a mailto link. Each user/browser can do what it wants with those links. For instance, I have my chrome setup to open GMail when I click mailto links. Apparently you have yours setup to not do anything. Here's a random link running down how to do something like this on your system - http://bnee.com/2008/09/make-mailto-links-open-in-gmail-in-google-chrome-browser-windows-xp-and-vista/