Exclamation Point in HTML Email

I am having a hard time formatting a table in an HTML email. There seems to always be one cell that doesn't have the background color or weird white spaces.

Here is the code (in php) -

 $subject.="<br/><br/><table style=\"width:585px;\" ><tr><td style=\"padding:10px;background-color:#113797;color:white;\">New & Used Vehicles</td><td style=\"padding:10px;background-color:#113797;color:white;\">Term in Months</td><td style=\"padding:10px;background-color:#113797;color:white;\">APR* As Low As</td><td style=\"padding:10px;background-color:#113797;color:white;\">Monthly Payment Per $1000 Borrowed</td></tr>";       
    $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM rates WHERE ID>='32' AND ID <='39'");
        while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
    {
                  $subject.= "<tr><td BGCOLOR=\"#e5f1ff\" style=\"padding:10px;color:black;\">" . $row['name'] . "</td>";
                  $subject.= "<td BGCOLOR=\"#e5f1ff\" style=\"padding:10px;\">" . $row['term'] . "</td>";
                  $subject.= "<td BGCOLOR=\"#e5f1ff\" style=\"padding:10px;\">" . $row['apr'] . "</td>";
                  $subject.= "<td BGCOLOR=\"#e5f1ff\" style=\"padding:10px;\">" . $row['per_1000'] . "</td></tr>";
    }

 $subject.= "</table>";

So I've tried both css background and html and both create something that looks bad. I've also tried Doctypes.

This is what my mail code looks like.

    mail( "XXXXXX@yahoo.com", "$title2", "$subject" , "Content-type: text/html;\r\nFrom: auto-alerts@streatoronized.org" );

Here is what it renders out like. See the rogue space?

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head></head><body>Check out the low rates.<table style="width:585px;" ><tr><td style="padding:10px;background-color:#113797;color:white;">New &amp; Used Vehicles</td><td style="padding:10px;background-color:#113797;color:white;">Term in Months</td><td style="padding:10px;background-color:#113797;color:white;">APR* As Low As</td><td style="padding:10px;background-color:#113797;color:white;">Monthly Payment Per $1000 Borrowed</td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#e5f1ff" style="padding:10px;color:black;height:100%;">2008 and NEWER Vehicle Purchases</td><td bgcolor="#e5f1ff" style="padding:10px;height:100%;">Up to 72 Months</td><td bgcolor="#e5f1ff" style="padding:10px;height:100%;">3.24%</td><td bgcolor="#e5f1ff" style="padding:10px;height:100%;">$17.28</td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#e5f1ff" style="padding:10px;color:black;height:100%;">2008 and NEWER Vehicle!
  Purchases</td><td bgcolor="#e5f1ff" style="padding:10px;height:100%;">64 - 72 Months</td><td bgcolor="#e5f1ff" style="padding:10px;height:100%;">4.29%</td><td bgcolor="#e5f1ff" style="padding:10px;height:100%;">$15.69</td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#e5f1ff" style="padding:10px;color:black;height:100%;">2007 and OLDER Vehicle Purchases</td><td bgcolor="#e5f1ff" style="padding:10px;height:100%;">Up to 72 Months</td><td bgcolor="#e5f1ff" style="padding:10px;height:100%;">5.49%</td><td bgcolor="#e5f1ff" style="padding:10px;height:100%;">$18.20</td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#e5f1ff" style="padding:10px;color:black;height:100%;">2007 and OLDER Vehicle Purchases</td><td bgcolor="#e5f1ff" style="padding:10px;height:100%;">64 - 72 Months</td><td bgcolor="#e5f1ff" style="padding:10px;height:100%;">5.99%</td><td bgcolor="#e5f1ff" style="padding:10px;height:100%;">$16.46</td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#e5f1ff" style="padding:10px;color:black;height:100%;">2011 &amp; 2010 REFINANCES</td><td bgcolor=!
 "#e5f1ff" style="padding:10px;height:100%;">Up to 63 Months</t!
 d><td bg
color="#e5f1ff" style="padding:10px;height:100%;">4.99%</td><td bgcolor="#e5f1ff" style="padding:10px;height:100%;">$18.08</td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#e5f1ff" style="padding:10px;color:black;height:100%;">2011 &amp; 2010 REFINANCES</td><td bgcolor="#e5f1ff" style="padding:10px;height:100%;">64 - 72 Months</td><td bgcolor="#e5f1ff" style="padding:10px;height:100%;">5.49%</td><td bgcolor="#e5f1ff" style="padding:10px;height:100%;">$16.34</td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#e5f1ff" style="padding:10px;color:black;height:100%;">2008 - 2009 REFINANCES</td><td bgcolor="#e5f1ff" style="padding:10px;height:100%;">Up to 60 Months</td><td bgcolor="#e5f1ff" style="padding:10px;height:100%;">5.99%</td><td bgcolor="#e5f1ff" style="padding:10px;height:100%;">$19.33</td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#e5f1ff" style="padding:10px;color:black;height:100%;">2007 &amp; older Vehicle REFINANCE</td><td bgcolor="#e5f1ff" style="padding:10px;height:100%;">Up to 60 Months</td><td bgcolor="#e5f1ff" style="padding:10px!
 ;height:100%;">6.99%</td><td bgcolor="#e5f1ff" style="padding:10px;height:100%;">$19.80</td></tr></table></body></html>

回答1:

I hate to answer my own question but I did find a resolution to the issue, and hopefully someone can use this solution to get rid of the headaches this causes.

The issue is being caused by use of the mail() function. When I try to send the email, I have a long string of html code. IN FACT, TOO LONG! When I go past 78 characters a BANG! shows up and then jacks with my html or css. RFC 2822

The resolution is to change it to base-64 encode the data or add \r\n on my long lines of html code. Either way resolves the issue.

Thanks for the help everyone!

回答2:

Seems there is not a return on the offending cells So try adding height:100% to them so they are fully filled. You could fix this by adjusting this code

<td style=\"padding:10px;background-color:#113797;color:white;\">

<td style=\"padding:10px;background-color:#113797;color:white;height:100%;\">

This should solve your problem.

回答3:

Remove all CSS styling, lots of email rendering engines fail with it. Use plain old table design.

Use <font color="black">blah</font> instead of style color, use <table cellpadding="10"> instead of style padding, use bgcolor instead of style background-color.

Set bgcolor to whole TABLE, not TDs.

回答4:

Here is a example of how to create a Base64 Encoded Email in:

    <?php 

$html = "<p>The <b>quick</b> <em>brown</em> <u>fox</u> jumped right over the lazy dog.</p><hr />";

$to   = "amit@labnol.org";
$cc   = "cc@labnol.org";
$bcc  = "bcc@labnol.org";
$from = "from@labnol.org";

$subject  = "This is a MIME encoded email";
$boundary = str_replace(" ", "", date('l jS \of F Y h i s A'));
$newline  = "\r\n";

$headers = "From: $from$newline".
           "Cc: $cc$newline".
           "Bcc: $bcc$newline".
           "MIME-Version: 1.0$newline".
           "Content-Type: multipart/alternative;".
           "boundary = \"$boundary\"$newline$newline".
           "--$boundary$newline".
           "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1$newline".
           "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64$newline$newline";

$headers .= rtrim(chunk_split(base64_encode($html)));

mail($to,$subject,"",$headers);

?>

I found this code in the following site :

https://ctrlq.org/code/19840-base64-encoded-email

Setting up your emails to be Based64 Encoded will remove the random '!' being added to emails.