Implementing the send SMS functionality

The previous recipe covered making a call directly from your mobile website. Making it easy for the user to send an SMS is also a useful feature. This recipe will show you how to add a button that, when clicked, will open the default SMS client on the user's device.

Getting ready

Create recipe-5.html in the chapter10 folder you created before starting this chapter.

How to do it…

It is easy to allow users to be able to quickly send an SMS message to you via your mobile website. Perform the following simple steps to learn how:

  1. Once more, using the jQuery Mobile template created in the first recipe of this chapter, create a simple mobile website within recipe-5.html using the following code:
    <!DOCTYPE html> <html> ...

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