i have sent a form to my email using mail() in php , in that i have used <br /> to get the feilds data in list format . but im getting the <br /> as well with the message and im not getting the format that i wanted. what's wrong?
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Sounds like you're sending in text-only mode. To send as HTML, use the HTML example on php.net: http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.p hp#id3111223 -
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As the previous post stated you are probably running text.
But when that is your intention you must use newlines to break a line, so you'd insert [php]"\n\r"[/php] (within double quotes!) instead of the <br>.
RonaldComment
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I think there are issues doing the \n\r in that order. Most of the time systems will use and expect \r\nComment
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Correct JeremyMiller, first the carriage return, then the newline.
RonaldComment
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sorr! guys i'm not getting ,can u people plz explain me little bit more abt the <br />Comment
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The carriage return (CR) is a special code (ASCII value 13) that moves the screen cursor or a print head to the beginning of the current line. Most word processors and the MS-DOS operating system use a combination of CR and line feed (LF – ASCII value 10) to represent a hard return. The Unix system, however, uses only LF and therefore files transferred between MS-DOS and Unix require a conversion program.Originally posted by venkat1
So this is for text-only, like in a text area, editor, a text file, etc.
The <br> tag is a HTML tags and is is used when you want to end a line in a HTML display, but don't want to start a new paragraph. The <br> tag forces a HTML line break wherever you place it.
This is used when displaying text in a HTML document.
In your case, an text-only e-mail message is treated as plain text, i.e. you use the markup for text data such as carriage return and line feed.
When your e-mail message is sent as HTML, you use the <br> to break a line in the output.
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