Set the HTML Body of an Email

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.SetHtmlBody method, which creates or replaces the text/html body of an email. It does not automatically create a plain-text alternative. This example sets an HTML body and confirms its presence.

Background: SetHtmlBody gives you explicit control over the HTML representation, unlike the general Body property which guesses the body type from the content. For a well-formed message you would typically also add a plain-text alternative (with AddPlainTextAlternativeBody) so text-only clients, accessibility tools, and spam filters have a fallback to read.

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#include <C_CkEmail.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    HCkEmail email;

    //  Demonstrates the SetHtmlBody method, which creates or replaces the text/html body of an
    //  email.  It does not automatically create a plain-text alternative.

    email = CkEmail_Create();
    CkEmail_putSubject(email,"Set HTML body");

    //  Set the HTML body.
    CkEmail_SetHtmlBody(email,"<html><body><h1>Welcome</h1><p>This is an HTML email.</p></body></html>");

    printf("HasHtmlBody: %d\n",CkEmail_HasHtmlBody(email));
    printf("%s\n",CkEmail_getMime(email));


    CkEmail_Dispose(email);

    }