mailto link on image not working in IE

Question

When a user clicks on the "send email" button, their default email application opens with the subject line: Request Information".

Can anyone tell me why this "mailto:" code will not work in IE7/8? It works correctly in FF, Chrome and Safari. I don't want to have to wrap up my image in an anchor tag, unless there's no other way.

HTML

<a href="mailto:info@mydomain.com?subject=Request Information" class="info-main">Send email</a>

CSS

.info-main {
background-image:url('/i/info_email_button.png') no-repeat;
display:block;
    height:123px;
    width:24px;
text-indent:-9999px;

}

Thanks!

Answer 1

Use Url-Encode for spaces and special characters, that means:

<a href="mailto:info@mydomain.com?subject=Request%20Information" class="info-main">Send email</a>