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w0051977
w0051977

Reputation: 15797

HTML blank spaces in email

A VB6 applications sends a HTML email. Please have a look at the code below. The email received has all the blank spaces stripped out i.e. all of the spaces on line 7 are stripped out and the email sent says: "this is a test". Is there a way to send a HTML email with all of the spaces.

strMailText = strMailText & "<b><font size=""2"" face=""Arial""><br>Test Email</font></b><br><br>"
strMailText = strMailText & "<table border='1'>"
strMailText = strMailText & "<tr>"
strMailText = strMailText & "<td><b><font size=""2"" face=""Arial"">Test Column</font></b></td>"
strMailText = strMailText & "</tr>"

strMailText = strMailText & "<td><font size=""2"" face=""Arial"">This is a         test</font></td>"
strMailText = strMailText & "<tr>"
strMailText = strMailText & "table"

SendEMail strEmailServer, "[email protected]", strEMailTo, _
                                "Test Email", strMailText, True

Upvotes: 0

Views: 5636

Answers (4)

Barton Interactive
Barton Interactive

Reputation: 21

Our findings from using Litmus to test these methods

While &nbsp; is supported by many email clients, some, such as Gmail (web) and iPhone Mail cause small anchor text underline spaces to be shown in some cases if an <a href=""> happens to be nearby.

Trying the <span style="padding-left: 15px;"></span> method, sadly, some email clients such as Outlook 2010, Outlook 2013, and Outlook 2019 simply show no space whatsoever.

But replacing these with something like img src="pixels.gif" width="15" height="2" style="border: none; outline: none; text-decoration: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;"> (a simple blank gif to force the space) is supported by absolutely every single email client in Litmus. (Note that we don't use a 1px x 1px sized gif, as we've heard that this could potentially lead to the email being marked as spam. Alternatively, we use a 2x2 gif.)

Upvotes: 2

Ahsan Khurshid
Ahsan Khurshid

Reputation: 9469

use &nbsp; instead of blank spaces.

&nbsp In computer-based text processing and digital typesetting, a non-breaking space, no-break space or non-breakable space (NBSP) is a variant of the space character that prevents an automatic line break (line wrap) at its position.

So this line 

`strMailText = strMailText & "<td><font size=""2"" face=""Arial"">This is a         test</font></td>"`

should be written as:

strMailText = strMailText & "<td><font size=""2"" face=""Arial"">This is a&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;test</font></td>"

Edited:

OR Another Method

Use a <span> tag instead of spaces and give it padding or margins like this 

<span style='padding-left: 15px;'></span>

So it should look like:

strMailText = strMailText & "<td><font size=""2"" face=""Arial"">This is<span style='padding-left: 15px;'></span>test</font></td>"

Upvotes: 7

Radu Pluta
Radu Pluta

Reputation: 131

Most html rendering engines collapse multiple consecutive spaces. try writing instead of space, non-breaking spaces: &nbsp; or &#160;

Upvotes: 2

Yash Dayal
Yash Dayal

Reputation: 1174

HTML strips out multiple spaces and replaces it by a single one. To solve your problem use &nbsp; instead of space.

strMailText = strMailText & "<td><font size=""2"" face=""Arial"">This is a &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; test</font></td>"

Upvotes: 0

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