I'm sending out an email using CodeIgniter's built in library. All I'm trying to do is send a bolded string, but instead of rendering the tags, it is printing them. What I have:
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<b>Donkey</b>
</body>
</html>
That is, character for character, the email I'm getting. Why aren't the tags rendering?
Have you tried
<span style='font-weight: bold'>My bold text</span>
OR
<strong>another bold tag</strong>
?
We use these and they both work for Gmail.
From the documentation:
$config['protocol'] = 'sendmail';
$config['mailpath'] = '/usr/sbin/sendmail';
$config['charset'] = 'iso-8859-1';
$config['wordwrap'] = TRUE;
$config['mailtype'] = 'html';
$this->email->initialize($config);
The CodeIgniter Email class defaults to sending text emails. Unless you specify that the mailtype is HTML ($config['mailtype'] = 'html';) your html will be sent out as text.