Question

I am developing a seat plan website. When a desk is clicked I get the info of the person sitting at the desk fine (name,phone,email). Now I want to have a email button beside the persons email address (similar to what lync 2011 had if anyone has seen it). On click off the button I would like to launch a new email in outlook and have the persons email address in the To field.

My solution is being developed in Visual Studio 2010, and uses C#, ASP, XML and Javascript/JQuery/JSON.

Does anyone have any advice on how to achieve this – any links or sample source would be great.

Answer 1

mailto:[e-mail]

Put that in a link. and viola you are good ^_^

Example:

<a href="mailto:[e-mail]">Email Harry</a>

See example here with a button (as described in comments below):
http://jsfiddle.net/maniator/DqYKw