How to attach css while Sending html emails with PHP

Question

i've to send email on registration . Right now this is what i'm doing ,

$bodymessaage= '<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" >';
$bodymessaage.='</table>'

my images are live on server and i've set their paths as absolute , i've set these headers

<?php $headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";?>

and in mail function is like this .

mail($to, $subject, $bodymessaage, $headers);

now mail is being sent with with all images and stles that are inline , my question is how do i attach css file that is in head section of my html email in style tags ,Please help me to sort this issue ,

Phiter · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-29 22:55:59Z

2

Use html style tag. I'm not 100% sure, but I believe it should come before the html body.

$bodymessage = '
<style>
   table{
   background-color: blue;
   }
</style>
';
$bodymessaage .= '<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" >';
$bodymessaage .='</table>';

This is just an example, of course.

As mentioned by Fred, <style> tags are ignored by most email clients. So instead of using it, use inline CSS:

$bodymessaage .= '<table style="background-color: blue;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" >';
$bodymessaage .='</table>';

edited Dec 29, 2015 at 22:55

answered Dec 29, 2015 at 21:03

Phiter

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5 Comments

Funk Forty Niner Over a year ago

style tags are ignored by most email clients, especially Google, Hotmail, Yahoo. Best to use inline CSS.

Phiter Over a year ago

Inline CSS would be style=" " in the HTML element, right?

Funk Forty Niner Over a year ago

that is exactly it. The first one will fail for the most part, while the second will work.

Phiter Over a year ago

Thanks, I didn't know about that.

Funk Forty Niner Over a year ago

oh and you forgot a closing semi-colon here $bodymessaage .='</table>' ;-)

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