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Asked: 2026-06-10T00:15:11+00:00

I am following a tutorial http://css-tricks.com/sending-nice-html-email-with-php/ to send mail in html format. My string

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I am following a tutorial http://css-tricks.com/sending-nice-html-email-with-php/ to send mail in html format.

My string looks like 

$message = '<html><body>';
$message .= '<img src="http://css-tricks.com/examples/WebsiteChangeRequestForm/images/wcrf-header.png" alt="Website Change Request" />';
$message .= '<table rules="all" style="border-color: #666;" cellpadding="10">';
$message .= "<tr style='background: #eee;'><td><strong>Dear:</strong> </td><td>" . strip_tags($part_name). "</td></tr>";
$message .= "<tr><td><strong>.$user_name.has fixed an appointment with you on  :</strong> </td><td>" . strip_tags($time). "</td></tr>";
$message .= "<tr><td><strong>In:</strong> </td><td>" .  strip_tags($meeting_name) . "</td></tr>";
$message .= "<tr><td><strong>Please click on:</strong> </td><td><a href=" . strip_tags($approve_url). "</a> To approve</td></tr>";
$message .= "</table>";
$message .= "</body></html>";

//   CHANGE THE BELOW VARIABLES TO YOUR NEEDS

$subject = 'Appointment Request ';

$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n";

But the received mail is not html formatted it is looking like 

<html>
    <body>
        <img src="http://css-tricks.com/examples/WebsiteChangeRequestForm/images/wcrf-header.png" alt="Website Change Request" />
        <table rules="all" style="border-color: #666;" cellpadding="10">
            <tr style='background: #eee;'>
                <td>
                    <strong>Dear:</strong> 
                </td>
                <td>Depu</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>
                    <strong>.pandit.has fixed an appointment with you on  :</strong> 
                </td>
                <td>
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>
                    <strong>In:</strong>
                </td>
                <td>anyp</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>
                    <strong>Please click on:</strong>
                </td>
                <td>
                    <a href=http://192.168.0.178/UI/user/approvemeeting.php?meetingid=REG_939300945&key=3107</a> To approve
                </td>
            </tr>
        </table>
    </body>
</html>

Please tell me what i am doing wrong why the mail is not coming html formatted

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  1. Editorial Team

    Use PHPMailer instead.

    It allows you to send SMTP and normal emails (PHP’s mail() function or expliciting all the SMTP params), and most important it lets you sepecify HTML message, plain text alternative message (but don’t specify it otherwise some clients won’t display the HTML one, such as bloody Lotus Notes).

    It allows you to specify headers, mime, etc…

    http://phpmailer.worxware.com/

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