Set a MIME Body from HTML

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Mime.SetBodyFromHtml method, which sets the body as HTML and changes the media type to text/html. The only argument is the HTML text.

Background: Setting an HTML body is how you produce the rich-formatted part of a message. Chilkat marks it text/html and chooses the encoding based on the content — 7bit for ASCII, a charset-aware encoding otherwise. In practice an HTML email is usually paired with a plain-text alternative inside a multipart/alternative so clients that cannot render HTML still have readable text.

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#include <C_CkMime.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    BOOL success;
    HCkMime mime;
    const char *html;

    success = FALSE;

    //  Demonstrates the Mime.SetBodyFromHtml method, which sets the body as HTML and changes the media
    //  type to text/html.  The only argument is the HTML text.

    mime = CkMime_Create();

    html = "<html><body><h1>Hello</h1><p>This is an HTML body.</p></body></html>";
    success = CkMime_SetBodyFromHtml(mime,html);
    if (success == FALSE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkMime_lastErrorText(mime));
        CkMime_Dispose(mime);
        return;
    }

    printf("Content-Type: %s\n",CkMime_contentType(mime));


    CkMime_Dispose(mime);

    }