Okay, then I think I'm going to stick with the <pre> solution that I have in place now. My fear was that it might not be interpreted correctly by some webmail or oddball email clients.
The reason I have to do this is that we had a recipient get the email (sent out as plain text originally) but their client applied a variable-width font. The content is padded to line up based on fixed-width spacing. Looked pretty bad. Until Later! C. Hatton Humphrey http://www.eastcoastconservative.com No trees were killed in the sending of this message, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Medic <[email protected]> wrote: > > pre will also interpret chr(10)chr(13) as <br>, whereas just a div using a > fixed width font will not. > > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:07 AM, C. Hatton Humphrey > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> I'm sending out emails from an application and based on the rules, the >> text needs to come out fixed width to have things look nice. That I >> know of, there are two ways to guarantee this will happen, both using >> HTML formatting: >> >> 1. Wrap the text with PRE tags. >> 2. Wrap the text with a div that forces font: courier new. >> >> Which is the better solution for this? >> >> Until Later! >> C. Hatton Humphrey >> http://www.eastcoastconservative.com >> >> No trees were killed in the sending of this message, but a large >> number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:342939 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
