content of an email

bory has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello great perlmonks, I have the code below for sending an email but when i rceive the email, the information is displayed chaotic:

$sender=new Mail::Sender
{smtp=>'155.142.124.145', from=>'test@yahoo.com'};
$sender->OpenMultipart({to=>'test1@hotmail.com',subject=>"This is a te
+st!"});
$sender->Part({ctype=>'text/html',disposition=>'None',encoding=>'quote
+d-printable'});        
$msg=qq (<html><body><br><table border=2 width=100>
<tr><td colspan=2><h3>My Information</h3></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>From</td><td><font color=blue>Bory</font></td></tr>
<tr><td >My Information</td><td width=100><fontcolor=blue>
DIV_BORY__V10.30.0__AR 
LIV_BORY_1696_V10.30.0__HD
LIV_BORY_162X_V10.30.0__CL
</font></td></tr></table></center> );          
$body=qq (</body></html>);
$sender->SendEnc($msg,$body);
$sender->Close();
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The problem is for eg in the tabel row My Information, the information is displayed on the same row while I want to be displayed on three separate rows!I always have this kind of problems of displaying on different rows! Another aspect is the difference between the browsers:If I open this email with Netscape the display is different from IE; Thank you for your time.

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Re: content of an email by matija (Priest) on Apr 16, 2004 at 07:01 UTC
You may want to display it in three lines, but you're telling the HTML you want it displayed in one line: `<tr><td >My Information</td><td width=100><fontcolor=blue> DIV_BORY__V10.30.0__AR LIV_BORY_1696_V10.30.0__HD LIV_BORY_162X_V10.30.0__CL </font></td>` [download] Maybe you should change that table so that each `BORY` line has a `<tr>` pair of it's own - or at the very least, you should force newlines with `<br>`.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: content of an email by mpolo (Chaplain) on Apr 16, 2004 at 07:43 UTC
In other words, HTML considers any amount of white space (including carriage returns) to be equivalent to a single space. Hence writing `<tr><td >My Information</td><td width=100><fontcolor=blue> DIV_BORY__V10.30.0__AR LIV_BORY_1696_V10.30.0__HD LIV_BORY_162X_V10.30.0__CL </font></td>` [download] is the same as writing `<tr><td >My Information</td><td width=100><fontcolor=blue> DIV_BORY__V10.30.0__AR LIV_BORY_1696_V10.30.0__HD LIV_BORY_162X_V10.30 +.0__CL </font></td>` [download] As matija says, the solution is to use <tr> pairs around each line -- this creates new lines for your table. If you put 'border="1"' in the table definition, you would see that each row is in a different cell of the table. The other solution, also mentioned above, using <br> would put all the information into one single row, but still separated on different lines.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: content of an email by bory (Beadle) on Apr 16, 2004 at 07:58 UTC
Thank you very much for your solution!I have corected the code and now it displayes properly. Thanks again for you time	[reply]
Re: content of an email by herveus (Prior) on Apr 16, 2004 at 11:20 UTC
Howdy! $sender=new Mail::Sender {smtp=>'155.142.124.145', from=>'test@yahoo.com'}; $sender->OpenMultipart({to=>'test1@hotmail.com',subject=>"This is a te +st!"}); $sender->Part({ctype=>'text/html',disposition=>'None',encoding=>'quote +d-printable'}); $msg=qq (<html><body><br><table border=2 width=100> <tr><td colspan=2><h3>My Information</h3></td><td></td></tr> <tr><td>From</td><td><font color=blue>Bory</font></td></tr> <tr><td >My Information</td><td width=100><fontcolor=blue> DIV_BORY__V10.30.0__AR LIV_BORY_1696_V10.30.0__HD LIV_BORY_162X_V10.30.0__CL </font></td></tr></table></center> ); $body=qq (</body></html>); $sender->SendEnc($msg,$body); $sender->Close(); [download] The problem begins with "ctype=>text/html". s/html/text/ Then, the rest follows very nicely: `$msg=qq (My Information From Bory My Information DIV_BORY__V10.30.0__AR LIV_BORY_1696_V10.30.0__HD LIV_BORY_162X_V10.30.0__CL ); $sender->SendEnc($msg);` [download] White space is honored. It works on all email clients. yours, Michael	[reply] [d/l] [select]