href mailto in Firefox

[Erhy]

Please to read my first question in codecall.net,

my friend use a firefox browser and he has no reaction by clicking on a button, I coded:

onClick='document.location.href="mailto:Bergbaumuseum%20Grünbach%20<marika.reichhold@aon.at>"'

The language set before:

<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">

Thank you for tips
Erhy

PS.
Link to this page, used in a inline frame:
Kontakt - Glück Auf im Bergbaumuseum Grünbach

[Xav]

Try Safari and Opera as well. See if it works there.

[Erhy]

it works with Microsofts IE7

[WingedPanther]

IE7 is still non-standards compliant. What works in IE7 tells you nothing about what will happen in any other browser. I prefer to develop under FireFox and then fix whatever breaks in IE. Is there any reason why you're using an OnClick instead of an anchor?

[Xav]

Maybe because it's a button - so it has an OnClick event. You could wrap the button in an anchor, but it isn't really ideal, and the space around the button reacts as well. Also, the button sometimes doesn't click properly.

[Erhy]

Yes, it for a button.
The OnClick event functions if the code looks:

onClick='frames["Schau"].location.href="termine.html"'

[chili5]

That is strange, I don't know why it doesn't work in firefox.

Why don't you just an anchor to link to the e-mail?

<a href="mailto:dddd@localhost">mail</a>

or something like that?

[Erhy]

to have a little bit an other design,
there is a button instead of an anchor.

I thought, that the real name is the reason, which is not often used:
"mailto:Bergbaumuseum%20Grünbach%20<marika.reichhold@aon.at>"

Erhy

[Xav]

Explore the Document Object Model (DOM). Maybe in Firefox, different objects are used to represent the current frame etc.

[Erhy]

Hello,

now I have an answer belonging this curious problem.

I asked Jo Bager. I read an article from him
in c't, which is a German computer magazine.
In this article, the difference of behavior was discussed.

Herbert Braun, a colleague of him, answered: (my translation from German to English)
>
>This is not a Firefox problem. Opera and Safari display the site in the same kind.
>
>The error is in IE:
>
>In the discussed html page, the button is overlaid from an other <DIV> layer,
>and so it is not possible to click the button.
>
>Except in IE, because buttons in IE are placed always in the highest layer (z-index).
>
I looked and
indeed there was a <DIV> box, which had no content in the region of the concerned button.

So thanks for all,
who spent thoughts for this little problem.

Erhy