a simple mailto: also fires postback on .net. How to prevent the postback?

I've got a simple link

    <a   href="mailto:test@email.com">test@email.com</a>

Problem is in an asp.net page when using Internet Explorer 8 clicking on the link not only opens the email client but also navigates the url to mailto:test@email.com i've tried adding onclick="return false;" however this prevents the mailto: from firing at all. so nothing happens in this case.

i think the problem comes from a scriptmanager on the same开发者_Go百科 page (which i kindof need)

again this only happens with IE. I havn't tested with previous versions of IE . But opera, ff, and chrome work just fine

just a quick edit. if i'm uisng a simple html page with IE8. it works just fine

Any ideas how to fix this?

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It is firing postback because it is in Anchor so when you click on it try to find href link. You can use javascript or jquery to solve this problem.

<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.4.1.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function() {
                $('a').attr('href', '#');
            });
</script>