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I'm trying to create a link that pops open a new email in outlook:

<a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=blah">Feedback</a>

and this works fine in firefox, but in IE9 it's literally redirecting the browser to "mailto:[email protected]?subject=blah". The email window still pops up but I need IE to remain on the same page where the mailto link was clicked.

EDIT: I have now pinpointed this to being a SharePoint 2007 problem. The mailto href works fine before adding a Search Core Results webpart to the page, but after adding the Core Results webpart, the previously described problem takes place.

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I still dont know what the exact cause of the problem is but I was able to get around it by doing the following:

Add a hidden iframe to the page:

<iframe id="emailiframe" src="" style="display:none;"></iframe>

In the content editor web part that contains my "feedback" link, I set the source to:

<script type="text/javascript">
function feedbackEmail()
{
var iframe = document.getElementById("emailiframe");
iframe.setAttribute("src", "mailto:[email protected]?subject=blah");
}
</script>

<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="feedbackEmail(); return false;">Feedback</a>

IE now does what it's supposed to.

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Have you tried this?

<a href="mailto:someaddr[email protected]?subject=blah" target="_self">Feedback</a>
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  • I've tried every target attribute value and still get the same behavior.
    – MattL922
    Aug 15, 2012 at 11:25

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