VBScript

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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Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Create a Unicode (utf-16) output text file.
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True, True)

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

set email = CreateObject("Chilkat.Email")
email.Subject = "Set HTML body"

'  Set the HTML body.
email.SetHtmlBody "<html><body><h1>Welcome</h1><p>This is an HTML email.</p></body></html>"

outFile.WriteLine("HasHtmlBody: " & email.HasHtmlBody())
outFile.WriteLine(email.GetMime())

outFile.Close