How can I launch the eMail client, and then do a page redirect with Javascript?

javascript, mailto, redirect

Solution

Changing the `href` property will start a location load, changing it again afterwards will cancel the previous navigation.

It appears that IE6 will start the e-mail client immediately upon setting the property, then continue the javascript execution. Other browsers appear to do things differently, and the second location load will cancel the first.

I managed to work around this in Chrome with a timer, it might work for other browsers too:

function myFunc(){ 
  location.href="mailto:test@test.com&body=Hello!"; 
  window.setTimeout(function () { location.href="newPage.html" }, 0); 
}

Problem

I'm required to make a website function exactly the same on other browsers as it does in IE6. Part of the current code looks similar to this: ``` <script> function myFunc(){ location.href="mailto:test@test.com&body=Hello!"; location.href="newPage.html"; } </script> <body onload="myFunc();"> </body> ``` in IE, this causes the mail client to open with the specified message prepared, and then redirects the browser to newPage.html. Other browsers, however, only redirect to newPage.html. How can I achieve this effect (opening the mail client and then doing a page redirect) consistently across browsers? As a note, I've also tried to accomplish this using meta refresh, but was unsuccessful.

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