String Variable not formatted in HTML Email

Hi Guys,

Been racking my brain most of the afternoon on this one, if anyone can shed any light, i would really appriciate it.

Basically I am pulling the body of an email out as text not HTML into a variable called Description (string), if i show the variable in a msgbox it is formatted in terms of line breaks etc.

I then add the description variable to a line in an HTML formatted email, the email is perfect except the Description variable which has no line breaks etc, so it all appears on one line.

Any thoughts?

Here's the HTML code:

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mail.IsBodyHtml = True

mail.Body = "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC ""-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"" ""http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd""> " &

"<html xmlns=""http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"">" &

"<head>" &

"<style type=""text/css"">" &

"body {background-color:ffffff;background-image:url(http://);background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:top left;background-attachment:fixed;text-align:left;font-family:Garamond;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:550;color:000000;}" &

"</style>" &

"</head> " &

"<body>" &

"<p>--------------------------------------------------------------</p>" &

"<p></p>" &

description &

"<p></p>" &

"<p>--------------------------------------------------------------</p>" &

"</body>" &

"</html>"

Dec 4 '12 #1

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Frinavale

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I'm not entirely sure what you're having problems with by try this.

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 mail.IsBodyHtml = True
 
Dim theBody As New Text.StringBuilder
 
theBody.AppendLine("<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC ""-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"" ""http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd""> ")

theBody.AppendLine("<html xmlns=""http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"">")

theBody.AppendLine("<head>")

theBody.AppendLine("<style type=""text/css"">")

theBody.AppendLine("body {background-color:ffffff;background-image:url(http://);background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:top left;background-attachment:fixed;text-align:left;font-family:Garamond;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:550;color:000000;}")

theBody.AppendLine("</style>")

theBody.AppendLine("</head> ")

theBody.AppendLine("<body>")

theBody.AppendLine(<p>--------------------------------------------------------------</p>")

theBody.AppendLine("<p></p>")

theBody.AppendLine(description)

theBody.AppendLine("<p></p>")

theBody.AppendLine("<p>--------------------------------------------------------------</p>")

theBody.AppendLine("</body>")

theBody.AppendLine("</html>")
 
mail.Body = theBody.ToString

Edit:
I just re-read your question.
You need to post the code populates the description variable. Did you put line breaks in it?

-Frinny

Dec 4 '12 #2

Asprisa

Hi Frinny,

Thanks for the reply, I was doing some thinking last night and managed to come up with the answer this morning.

It goes along the lines you were thinking at the bottom of your post:

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theBody.AppendLine("<p>")
 
Using SR = New IO.StringReader(description)
 
While SR.Peek >= 0
 
Dim l As String = SR.ReadLine()
 
theBody.AppendLine(l & "<br />")
 
End While
 
End Using
 
theBody.AppendLine("</p>")

This code was able to strip each line out of the string, and then i simply put the HTML formatting around the output.

Thanks for your help!

James.

Dec 5 '12 #3

Frinavale

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I'm glad you solved the problem :)

-Frinny

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