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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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use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

# 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.

my $mime = Chilkat2::Mime->new;

my $html = '<html><body><h1>Hello</h1><p>This is an HTML body.</p></body></html>';
my $success = $mime->SetBodyFromHtml($html);
if (!$success) {
    print $mime->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

print 'Content-Type: ', $mime->ContentType, "\n";