Hyperlink activated directly from button rather than underlined text

For styling purposes, would like to activate Outlook Express, or whatever, directly from clicking a button, rather than clicking a button which causes "Click here 开发者_JAVA技巧to send Email" to be displayed and then clicking "Click here to send Email".

Suggestions as to how to achieve objective will be appreciated.

Thank you.

Ivan Rutter

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Something like this ?

html

<button class="email" data-email="some@email.com">whatever</button>

jquery

$('.email').click(function(){
   window.location = 'mailto:' + $(this).data('email');
});

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Do you mean

<input type="button" value="Send Mail" onclick="location='mailto:whoever@wherever.com';" />

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<a href="mailto:my.name@example.com">Mail me!</a>

Clicking this link will automatically open the system's default e-mail client. See here for more details on mailto: http://www.ianr.unl.edu/internet/mailto.html.

Edit: if you want it to look like a button, stick a button-like image in your <a>.