How do I invoke an SMS compose from a website on Windows Phone 7.5?

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This is dead easy for iOS, Android and even BlackBerry OS by just using the sms: prefix in your href attribute, like so:

<a href="sms:0046730123456">Send an SMS to +46 73 012 34 56</a>

This launches the SMS application with the number pre-filled on previously mentioned platforms. But on WP7.5 using Internet Explorer, we get an error saying that the URL scheme is not supported. Someone online hinted at smsto: but that didn't work either.

Does not work, I'm afraid. The other browsers just adds the double slashes to the phone number. — Fredrik Frodlund, Oct 18 '12 at 09:50
@FredrikFrodlund Did you ever find a solution? Dealing with a similar problem with SMS links on Windows Phone. — kaoscify, Mar 14 '15 at 19:08
@mapr I completely missed your comment for over 1,5 years. Sorry about that :/ I'm afraid I never found a solution to the problem. — Fredrik Frodlund, Sep 17 '15 at 20:46

score -1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:44

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You should use the javascript inject to get the link click event, the solution is like here.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:44

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answered Oct 17 '12 at 10:28

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I'm not sure what I would accomplish with this. How is this different from a regular anchor click? Mind you, we got tel: working just fine on IE in WP7.5. – Fredrik Frodlund Oct 18 '12 at 10:16
@FredrikFrodlund to make things much simpler, you can look into the navigating event of the webbrowser, then you can use "string url = e.Uri.ToString();", according to the url, you can judge if the click is cause by the "href="sms..."". – ellic Oct 22 '12 at 03:34
I'm sorry, I still don't get how this applies. The basic problem still lies with WP7 not understanding the sms: url scheme. Am I missing something? :/ – Fredrik Frodlund Oct 25 '12 at 09:16

How do I invoke an SMS compose from a website on Windows Phone 7.5?

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