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Old October 17th, 2002, 02:30 AM
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include css in mail()
hi, in my site i got a "tell a friend" section, where user can tell their friends about my site. and then i will send out an email to their friends.

my problem is, i dono how to include css in tat email.

how should i do tat?
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Old October 17th, 2002, 02:36 AM
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Just stick it in the <head> section.
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Old October 17th, 2002, 02:46 AM
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err...something like this??

mail($mesg, $subject, $headers...

part of my css:
Code:
body {
	background-color: #fffcfc;
	scrollbar-face-color: #f7eeee;
	scrollbar-highlight-color: #FFFFFF;
	scrollbar-shadow-color: #f7eeee;
	scrollbar-3dlight-color: #F5E9E9;
	scrollbar-arrow-color:  #800000;
	scrollbar-track-color: #fbf5f5;
	scrollbar-darkshadow-color: #cc9999;
}


put in part of the message:
PHP Code:
 $mesg .= "body {";
    $mesg .= "background-color: #fffcfc;";
    $mesg .= "scrollbar-face-color: #f7eeee;";
    $mesg .= "scrollbar-highlight-color: #FFFFFF;";
    $mesg .= "scrollbar-shadow-color: #f7eeee;";
    $mesg .= "scrollbar-3dlight-color: #F5E9E9;";
    $mesg .= "scrollbar-arrow-color:  #800000;";
    $mesg .= "scrollbar-track-color: #fbf5f5;";
    $mesg .= "scrollbar-darkshadow-color: #cc9999;";
$mesg .= "}"; 


and send it out??
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Old October 17th, 2002, 02:52 AM
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As I said before, stick it in <head>
PHP Code:
 $msg=<<<html
<html><head><style>
body {
    background-color: #fffcfc;
    scrollbar-face-color: #f7eeee;
    scrollbar-highlight-color: #FFFFFF;
    scrollbar-shadow-color: #f7eeee;
    scrollbar-3dlight-color: #F5E9E9;
    scrollbar-arrow-color:  #800000;
    scrollbar-track-color: #fbf5f5;
    scrollbar-darkshadow-color: #cc9999;
}
</style></head><body>blah blah</body></html>
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Old October 20th, 2002, 10:38 PM
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i tried u way u show me..but the style still now showing up in my email. wat is wrong?

is it because the email i sent to got it's own style and my style cannot overwrite the email style...for eg hotmail??
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I don't think you'll get the scrollbar things (which btw are non-standard) to work in your e-mail prog, since those are meant for IE only. One reason for not using them...
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Old October 21st, 2002, 09:08 AM
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To use HTML/styles in an e-mail it's got to be sent with the appopriate MIME type.
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