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HTML formatting issue with Lotus Notes

Asked by: Anteus

Good afternoon,

I'm trying to send an email through Lotus Notes (using VBA), in HTML format.
I'm having trouble with managing tables, especially fixing the column width.
I have tried to use CSS styles, and regular HTML tags (width=50 for example), but Lotus Notes seems to keep ignoring them.

Has anybody encountered such an issue, and found a solution?

Thank you very much!

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2009-11-02 at 13:28:02ID24865275
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HTML Lotus Notes VBA format

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Lotus Domino Email Server

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Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

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Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet Software

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Answers

 

by: x-menPosted on 2009-11-03 at 02:32:59ID: 25727543

have you tried configuring a fixed with on the table, and % with on the columns?

 

by: sjef_bosmanPosted on 2009-11-03 at 03:55:58ID: 25728014

If you want to use HTML in emails via Notes and Domino, you have to use MIME.

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Q_24348458.html

 

by: AnteusPosted on 2009-11-03 at 22:29:50ID: 25736908

Defining the width for each and every CELL is working, assuming that you are really careful about the sum of the cell width strictly equal to the table width...

I'll have a look at the MIME link.

In addition to that, I have trouble setting an hyperlink in my code.
Part of the link is "=51" (or any other 2 digits number) and Notes will apparently translate it into "P" or "Q" or any other character. So of course, my link is broken...

Any idea on the origin of the problem?

 

by: sjef_bosmanPosted on 2009-11-04 at 00:03:03ID: 25737256

That's an encoding-issue, see for an explanation:
http://ask-leo.com/why_does_my_email_sometimes_show_up_with_funny_characters_like_0d_in_it.html

It also depends on the header info that's sent with the mail. Try MIME...

20120131-EE-VQP-002

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