Home/ Questions/Q 171609
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-05-11T13:01:05+00:00

Has anyone found a good way of embeding CSS in a programatically produced email.

  • 0

Has anyone found a good way of embeding CSS in a programatically produced email. The best way I have found is to put the style code into a resource file and call it into the code.

An emample would be

Dim objBuilder objBuilder = New StringBuilder  objBuilder.Append(Resources.SystemEmail.CSSStyle) objBuilder.Append('My Styled Email')  Dim _Body As String = objBuilder.ToString()

This would build the body of the email

Is there any way to make a template file for an email or a better way to call a style sheet into one.

The code in my .resx file would be 

<STYLE TYPE='text/css'> <!-- body {      font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial;     font-size: 10pt;     padding: 3px 0px 0px 0px;     margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;  } --> </STYLE>

And calling this into the string would call this inline

And with the answers below to send the message I would use this

Dim client As New SmtpClient('localhost') Dim toAddr As New MailAddress(MailRecipients) Dim fromAddr As New MailAddress(MailFrom) Dim message As New MailMessage(fromAddress, toAddress)   message.Subject = 'The Subject' message.Body =  _Body  message.IsBodyHtml = True message.BodyEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8  client.Send(message)
Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. The only way we’ve been successful is to include the CSS inline. Document Header style CSS inclusion isn’t consistent or reliable.

    Also, make sure your email headers are set to: Content-type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

    EDIT UTF-8 is also a good option. The KEY point of that statement is the Content-type being set to text/html

    • 0