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Originally posted by xoggoth View PostI want to include an itemised list of goods ordered in a confirmation email sent to customers from an RBSWorldpay payment page, ie one or more lines of goods, number, price each, total.
Last time I did something similar to what you're trying to accomplish here, I just padded the content of each cell in the table with spaces until the size reached the width in characters of the containing column. If you want something to be left-aligned within a column, you add spaces to the right, and for right-alignment you add spaces to the left.
Below shows how this would look in a plain text email client:
Code:Item Quantity Total -------------------------------------------------- Blue Widget 21 10.40 Green Widget 4 6.20 Flourescent Widget 3 1.20
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Originally posted by xoggoth View PostLooking at a few emails in notepad it seems that every email automatically contains both a text version and an HTML version. So using HTML tags would end up with tags inside tags in some clients. Bum.
As far as I'm concerned, using HTML in email is like adding sound effects to your phone calls.
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Looking at the last 30 mails in my inbox, i's say 85% of them are HTML formatted so if i somehow managed to set my mail client to ignore HTML it wouldn't just be the OP's email that looked ropey, you'd get used to viewing badly formatted messages.
Reckon 99% of recipients would view it fine but as someone mentioned earlier, a PDF attachment and plain text mail is the best option, just more hassle to implement.Last edited by Durbs; 9 June 2009, 11:52.
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Originally posted by Durbs View PostNot really, the vast majority of mail clients will display an HTML mail fine as long as you dumb down the HTML to its simplest form (no CSS or inline styles). Cant think of a mail client that a normal user would use that wouldn't support it?
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Originally posted by xoggoth View PostAny way of doing it without passing HTML to the mailer? I understand that has its own problems for viewing in all email clients.
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A friend of mine runs the following site, http://litmusapp.com/
Very popular, should allow you to correctly test what your email will look like in pretty much every concievable email client.
TM
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Oh bum
Looking at a few emails in notepad it seems that every email automatically contains both a text version and an HTML version. So using HTML tags would end up with tags inside tags in some clients. Bum.
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How to format an email ?
I want to include an itemised list of goods ordered in a confirmation email sent to customers from an RBSWorldpay payment page, ie one or more lines of goods, number, price each, total.
Can't figure how to get it so the columns are in line and it looks neat. Tried using '\t' in the form field sent to mailer but it doesn't work.
Can one format an email message ? If you type a message in Windows Mail, even using a fixed width font, tabs don't give a consistent spacing.
Any way of doing it without passing HTML to the mailer? I understand that has its own problems for viewing in all email clients.
Cheers.Last edited by xoggoth; 8 June 2009, 19:50.Tags: None
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