Lua

Set the HTML Body of an Email

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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local chilkat = require("chilkat")

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

local email = chilkat.Email.new()
email.subject = "Set HTML body"

-- Set the HTML body.
email:set_html_body("<html><body><h1>Welcome</h1><p>This is an HTML email.</p></body></html>")

print("HasHtmlBody: " .. tostring(email:has_html_body()))
print(email:get_mime())