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Asked: May 21, 20262026-05-21T12:09:35+00:00 2026-05-21T12:09:35+00:00

Trying to send a html email via mail(), however gmail just displays the email

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Trying to send a html email via mail(), however gmail just displays the email as plain text, no mark up, eg:

mail("blah@blah.com", "subject", "<i>Italic Text</i>");

just appears as

<i>Italic Text</i>

Any ideas?

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    2026-05-21T12:09:35+00:00Added an answer on May 21, 2026 at 12:09 pm

    You have to specify that the contents of the mail is HTML:

    mail("blah@blah.com", "subject", "<i>Italic Text</i>", "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1");
    
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