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Can Email Links open in new window?

I have this line of code:

<a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=test&body=test" target="_blank">test</a>

But the target="_blank" is not working. It always opens the mail server in the same window but not in new. What I am doing wrong?

Solution

  • It always opens the mail server in the same window but not in new.

    You've got no control over how the user's client will handle mailto: URLs. It may choose to ignore them completely (as my client does), it may start up a new program such as mutt or pine or kmail or thunderbird, or whatever; or it might even load a web-mail client using a browser-specific plugin.

    You cannot control what happens on the client's machine when handling a mailto: URL -- you'd better not waste your time trying to fiddle with it, because it will only ever be meaningful on your development machine.