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Asked: 2026-06-03T05:00:47+00:00

I’m trying to render html in an email and even after searching the web,

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I’m trying to render html in an email and even after searching the web, I am still a little confused.. Basically I would like to have say a box(div) with a background color display in the email. I’m sending the email using the php mail() function and trying to set the message body to a string such as: "<div style='background:black;'>Test</div>", but instead of rendering the html, the email just displays the html text..
Is there an easy way of rendering the html? Thanks for the help!

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  1. Editorial Team

    You have to properly encode your email to indicate that it is HTML by setting the Content-type to text/html.

    See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME for solid background information.

    Depending on your platform, there’s almost certainly a toolset to simplify this. For example, on Microsoft ASP.Net, I use MvcMailer. If you specify your platform, I’ll make a concrete recommendation.

    For PHP, here’s a great article on sending nicely formatted HTML email

    $to = 'bob@example.com';

$subject = 'Website Change Reqest';

$headers = "From: " . strip_tags($_POST['req-email']) . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: ". strip_tags($_POST['req-email']) . "\r\n";
$headers .= "CC: susan@example.com\r\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n";

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