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Set a MIME Body from HTML

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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local chilkat = require("chilkat")

-- 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.

local mime = chilkat.Mime.new()

local html = "<html><body><h1>Hello</h1><p>This is an HTML body.</p></body></html>"
local success = mime:set_body_from_html(html)
if not success then
    print(mime.last_error_text)
    return
end

print("Content-Type: " .. mime.content_type)