PHP mail formatting

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Weirfire

Jan 16th 2006, 9:21 am

Basic question - how do I send an email with css formatting?

I've been trying to mail something along the lines of the example below;

$message = "<table width='450' style='background: green'>";
$message = "<tr><td style='color: #E0E0E0'>I'm green and slimey</td></tr>";
$message = "</table>";

mail($email, $subject, $message, $mailheaders);

It doesnt seem to do anything within the quotes e.g. width='450' or style='....'

Do I need to set up the type of email in the $message variable?

dave487

Jan 16th 2006, 9:26 am

The following works for me:

$subject = "title";
$message = "
<html>
<head>
<LINK REL=\"StyleSheet\" HREF=\"http://www.domain.org.uk/style.css\" TYPE=\"text/css\">
</head>
<body>
<table><tr><td class=\"content\" colspan=3>
content
</td></tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
";

$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$headers .= "From: no-reply@domain.org.uk <no-reply@domain.org.uk>\r\n";

mail("$to", $subject, $message, $headers);

Alternatively you could try adding a \ before your ' eg width=\'400\'

Also you should use an inline style sheet rather than an external one like I do.

Weirfire

Jan 16th 2006, 9:27 am

Thanks Dave, I'll try that!