Open the href mailto link in new tab / window

Question

I have an image which when click, I want to link to a mailto:

Answer 1

I know this is an old question, but this thread had the best set of answers if found. I modified Marcos's Answer above to also close the blank tab that is created if the client has an external mail handler

reference answer

JS (w\ jQuery for event handlers)

$(document).on('click', 'a[href^=mailto]', function(e) {
  var checkClose, checkLoaded, event, href, i, len, loadEvents, results, t, wndw;
  e.preventDefault();
  href = this.href;
  wndw = window.open(href, 'mail');
  checkClose = function() {
    console.log('checkClose');
    try {
      wndw.location.href;
      return wndw.close();
    } catch (error) {
      return console.log('webmail');
    }
  };
  t = setTimeout(checkClose, 5000);
  try {
    checkLoaded = function() {
      console.log('loaded');
      clearTimeout(t);
      return t = setTimeout(checkClose, 2000);
    };
    wndw.onload = checkLoaded;
    loadEvents = ["DomContentLoaded", "load", "beforeunload", "unload"];
    results = [];
    for (i = 0, len = loadEvents.length; i < len; i++) {
      event = loadEvents[i];
      results.push(wndw.addEventListener(event, checkLoaded));
    }
    return results;
  } catch (error) {
    return checkLoaded();
  }
});

jsfiddle

Answer 2

Variant 1 (JavaScript):

<script>
// Open mailto links in a new tab
function mailto(email, subject, body) {
    var url;
    url = 'mailto:' + email;
    url += '?subject=' + subject;
    url += '&body=' + body;
    window.open(url);
}
</script>

<a href="#" onclick="mailto('test@gmail.com', 'Subject', 'Body');event.preventDefault()">test@gmail.com</a>

Variant 2 (JavaScript):

<script>
// Open mailto links in a new tab
function mailto(th) {
    var url = th.getAttribute('href');
    window.open(url);
}
</script>

<a href="mailto:test@gmail.com?subject=Subject&body=Body" onclick="mailto(this);event.preventDefault()">test@gmail.com</a>

Variant 3 (jQuery):

<script>
// Open mailto links in a new tab
$('#mailto').click(function (e) {
    e.preventDefault();
    var url = $(this).attr('href');
    window.open(url);
});
</script>

<a href="mailto:test@gmail.com?subject=Subject&body=Body" id="mailto">test@gmail.com</a>

Variant 4 (jQuery):

<script>
// Open mailto links in a new tab
$("a[href^='mailto:']").click(function(e) {
    e.preventDefault();
    var href = $(this).attr('href');
    var target = $(this).attr('target');
    window.open(href, target ? target : '_self');
});
</script>

<a href="mailto:test@gmail.com?subject=Subject&body=Body" target="_blank">test@gmail.com</a>

HTML target Attribute: https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_a_target.asp