how to bold text in php mail

Hello friends

Am having problem bolding my text or applying other styles to my mail content. eg

<?php

$message= "Name: <b>$name</b>";

?>

the message always appear in the receivers box as

Name: <b>James</b> instead of

Name: James

What do i do?

 

You need to tell mail in the headers that you want to send a html email

 

$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html\r\n';
and optional parameter header in your mail function.