JS/jQuery mailto AND loading other site

Question

My situation is as follow: I have the sites: preview.html and index.html Now I have some inputs and a button on preview.html , which should open the email programm using mailto and load index.html where preview.html was displayed

I have tried

window.location.href = "mailto:[myadress]?subject=[formname]&body[his inputs]";
window.location = "index.html"

Does anyone know how I could solve it?

Answer 1

The closest you can get client side - if the browser allows you is

window.open("mailto:[myadress]?subject=[formname]&body[his inputs]","_blank");
window.location = "index.html"

or using an iFrame:

window.iFramename.location="mailto:[myadress]?subject=[formname]&body[his inputs]";
setTimeout(function() {
  window.location = "index.html";
}),1000);

but a better solution is to mail at the server and redirect