I am trying to generate a help menu within my web application and would to like to place a mailto link within the menu to open the clients default mail program and fill in the to: and subject fields. I am creating the entire menuToolbar dynamically from a bound bean and can successfully create the link but I'm not getting the behaviour I want! ie.

        HtmlToolBarGroup tmpTBGroup;

        tmpTBGroup = (HtmlToolBarGroup) app.createComponent(HtmlToolBarGroup.COMPONENT_TYPE);

        tmpTBGroup.setLocation("right");

        HtmlDropDownMenu helpMenu;

        HtmlMenuItem tmpMenuItem;

        helpMenu = (HtmlDropDownMenu) app.createComponent(HtmlDropDownMenu.COMPONENT_TYPE);

        helpMenu.setValue("Help");

        tmpMenuItem = (HtmlMenuItem) app.createComponent(HtmlMenuItem.COMPONENT_TYPE);

        tmpMenuItem.setSubmitMode("client");

        tmpMenuItem.setValue("Help Request");

        tmpMenuItem.setOnclick("mailto:help@omniuscomputing.co.uk?subject=Website Help Request");

        helpMenu.getChildren().add(tmpMenuItem);

        tmpTBGroup.getChildren().add(helpMenu);

creates a menu item correctly but it does nothing when clicked.

If I use -

        tmpMenuItem.setOnclick("window.open(\"mailto:help@omniuscomputing.co.uk?subject=Website Help Request\")");

then IE9 opens a new window and then tries to render the mailto link which does open the default email program but it leaves a blank window wich just looks rubbish! Any help would be appreciated.