Php how to send mail with bold text

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Here I am trying to send the email with some text highlighted in bold. Here is what I have tried but I am getting the tags as it is but I am not getting the bold font. How can I do this?

Here is what I have done:

$mail->Body = PROPOSE_STATEMENT." <b>".$product_name."</b> ".REJECTED;

Here I have used the html <b></b> tags in the php to make the text bold but I am getting output like this:

 you proposed <b>TVS Apache RTR 160</b> Has been

possible duplicate of [Add HTML formatting in phpmailer](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13789989/add-html-formatting-in-phpmailer) — gabe3886, Sep 23 '15 at 07:58
The output needs to be sent AS html, Meaning you need to send some info along in the headers telling the e-mail reader or w.e it's called that the content is to be read as HTML — Epodax, Sep 23 '15 at 07:58

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 23 '15 at 08:00

You have to send an HTML Mail. Set to, subject and headers (Set HTML in header)

$to = 'bob@example.com';
$subject = 'Request'; 
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
//Set the content-type to html
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n";

Now you can use HTML

$message = '<html><body>';
$message .= '<h1>Hello, World!</h1><b>bold</b>';
$message .= '</body></html>';

And send the Mail

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

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 23 '15 at 07:59

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You need to set the HTML content type in the email header

"Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n"

Your code doesnt indicate some standard email sending method that im aware of so i cant help with actual code

answered Sep 23 '15 at 07:59

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 23 '15 at 08:01

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If you are using PHP Mailer then add this line in your script

$mail->IsHTML(true);

answered Sep 23 '15 at 08:01

Awais Tahir

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$mail->MsgHTML() is also a option – Crecket Sep 23 '15 at 08:03

score 1 · Answer 4 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:14

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There's a really good answer about this in this stackoverflow question which covers general HTML formatting.

You pretty much either need to set the content type of the e-mail by doing:

Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

or, if using PHP mailer, use the following to set the e-mail to be HTML:

$mail->IsHTML(true);

edited May 23 '17 at 12:14

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answered Sep 23 '15 at 08:00

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Php how to send mail with bold text

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