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Asked: 2026-05-13T14:54:08+00:00

I’m required to make a website function exactly the same on other browsers as

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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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  1. Editorial Team

    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); 
}
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