How to visually enhance MAILTO data submitted text?

118 Views Asked by redshift At 10 April 2025 at 18:57

I am building a website contact form that uses MAILTO to send text that the user submits via the web form. However, the email account that receives the MAILTO text comes in 'ugly' and was wondering if there was a way to get that text into an HTML format to enhance visually without having to rely on some back-end script.

Or, is there a better way to do this?

Thanks.

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Muhammad On 02 December 2013 at 18:41

you can't format html body using mailto, you need to use mail() function of php,

here is short example:

<?php
// multiple recipients
$to  = '[email protected]' . ', '; // note the comma
$to .= '[email protected]';

// subject
$subject = 'Birthday Reminders for August';

// message
$message = '
<html>
<head>
  <title>Birthday Reminders for August</title>
</head>
<body>
  <p>Here are the birthdays upcoming in August!</p>
  <table>
    <tr>
      <th>Person</th><th>Day</th><th>Month</th><th>Year</th>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Joe</td><td>3rd</td><td>August</td><td>1970</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Sally</td><td>17th</td><td>August</td><td>1973</td>
    </tr>
  </table>
</body>
</html>
';

// To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set
$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

// Additional headers
$headers .= 'To: Mary <[email protected]>, Kelly <[email protected]>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: Birthday Reminder <[email protected]>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Cc: [email protected]' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Bcc: [email protected]' . "\r\n";

// Mail it
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>

more detail: http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

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