HTML e-mail message format problem

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Hello,

I have a method that sends email in a HTML format to the recipient. I have been trying to send it in a proper way but all I get is the same written things which I wrote on the body format. It doesn't fill the fields. The code is like that:

C#

System.Net.Mail.MailMessage message = new System.Net.Mail.MailMessage();
                message.IsBodyHtml = true;
                string body = "<html><body>";

                body += @"<table border='1' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0'>
                          <tr>
                            <td width='160' height='160'><a href='{0}'><img src='{1}' width='160' height='160' border='0px' /></a></td>
                            <td style='padding-left:10px'><table width='432' border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0'>
                              <tr>
                                <td><a style='font-size:18px; font-weight:bold'>ASIN: {2}</a></td>
                              </tr>
                              <tr>
                                <td><a style='color:#000; font-size:18px; font-weight:bold' href='{0}'>link</a></td>
                              </tr>
                              <tr>
                                <td>Review average has been changed from {3} to {4}.</td>
                              </tr>
                              <tr>
                                <td>Total review has been changed from {5} to {6}.</td>
                              </tr>
                              <tr>
                                <td>Price: {7}</td>
                              </tr>
                              <tr>
                                <td>Marketplace: {8}</td>
                              </tr>
                              <tr>
                                <td height='21'>Manufacturer: {9}</td>
                              </tr>
                            </table></td>
                          </tr>
                        </table>";

                message.Body = String.Format(body, detailpageurl, imageurl, asin,  String.Format("{0:0.#}", old_rating),  String.Format("{0:0.#}", rating), oldtotalreview, total_review, price, mercname, manufacturer);
                body += "</body></html>";
                message.Body = body;
                message.Subject = "Product Review";

And the email that I have received is :

XML

ASIN: {2}
link

Review average has been changed from {3} to {4}.
Total review has been changed from {5} to {6}.
Price: {7}
Marketplace: {8}
Manufacturer: {9}

can someone help me find the problem?

Posted 10-Dec-10 14:37pm

Orcun Iyigun

Updated 11-Dec-10 2:52am

TweakBird

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Sandeep Mewara 11-Dec-10 3:46am

So you mean to say it is not getting formatted into HTML format?

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Rajitha Wimalasooriya · Answer 1 · 2010-12-11T03:49:00

There is an error in your coding.
You are assigning the formatted text to message.Body.
After the assignment is executed the body variable still contains the unformatted text. But later on you are again assigning the unformatted body variable to the message.Body

If you replace this,

message.Body = String.Format(body, detailpageurl, imageurl, asin, String.Format("{0:0.#}", old_rating), String.Format("{0:0.#}", rating), oldtotalreview, total_review, price, mercname, manufacturer);

with this,

body = String.Format(body, detailpageurl, imageurl, asin, String.Format("{0:0.#}", old_rating), String.Format("{0:0.#}", rating), oldtotalreview, total_review, price, mercname, manufacturer);

It should work fine.