Formatting the Welcome Message
Can the welcome message be formatted in html?
I have put html tags to make certain parts of the welcome message bold <b></b> but the tags are displaying in raw format instead of bolding:)
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On 06/11/2014 03:20 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
Can the welcome message be formatted in html?
I have put html tags to make certain parts of the welcome message bold <b></b> but the tags are displaying in raw format instead of bolding:)
The welcome message is sent as a text/plain message. Thus, HTML tags don't work.
You can put things like *this is bold* in the message and some MUAs will understand that the text between the asterisks is to be rendered in a bold font. Similarly /italic/ and _underlined_.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
On 11 June 2014 18:39, Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> wrote:
On 06/11/2014 03:20 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
Can the welcome message be formatted in html?
I have put html tags to make certain parts of the welcome message bold <b></b> but the tags are displaying in raw format instead of bolding:)
The welcome message is sent as a text/plain message. Thus, HTML tags don't work.
You can put things like *this is bold* in the message and some MUAs will understand that the text between the asterisks is to be rendered in a bold font. Similarly /italic/ and _underlined_.
I realized this and decided to just use _this is important_ instead:)
Thank you.
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 "I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler."
On 6/11/2014 11:39 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
You can put things like *this is bold* in the message and some MUAs will understand that the text between the asterisks is to be rendered in a bold font. Similarly /italic/ and _underlined_.
However, Thunderbird, which I use, tries to do this *but fails* when the begin/end markers occur on separate lines.
Thus _this is important_ will be underlined in Thunderbird, _but this is also important_ will not (at least if the line break falls within the markers, as it did when I tested this by sending it to myself).
I suppose one could work around this _by putting extra markers_ _at the end of the first line and the beginning of the second_.
-- Larry Kuenning larry@qhpress.org
Le 11/06/2014 18:01, Larry Kuenning a écrit :
Thus _this is important_ will be underlined in Thunderbird, _but this is also important_ will not (at least if the line break falls within the markers, as it did when I tested this by sending it to myself).
Yep it doesn't work. Is a ticket opened on the Thunderbird's bug tracker?
Sylvain.
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