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I am 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", "<i>Italic Text</i>");

just appears as

<i>Italic Text</i>

Any ideas?

peterh
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Have you set your email headers?

// To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set
$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

// Mail it
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

If yes, do any other email clients have the same problem? Or is it just Gmail?

Ciaran
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Try it with css, the i tag is deprecated, not sure if that is causing it...

<span style='font-style:italic;'>Italic Text</span>

Or you could try using the em tag: 

<em>Italic Text</em>
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  • Semantic Markup (what you're describing) won't make any difference whatsoever here. And FWIW, using HTML 1, non-semantic tags still work just fine. Luckily, Microsoft doesn't own the web, so things are actually backwards compatible on HTML. – bpeterson76 Apr 19 '11 at 14:35
  • @bpeterson76 Email HTML support has nothing to do with web HTML compatibility. These are two *very* different things. It never hurts to try multiple approaches and see which the email client in question will render propertly. – Dan Bechard May 20 '15 at 17:31