white-space:pre; not maintaining breaks.

[Noozer]

I have an ASP page that generates an HTML formatted email message. It works
fine except for one item...

I want to maintain the line breaks, etc for the data that was input into a
text box. The formatting does show up in the email (partial source below)
but the inline CSS styling for white-space isn't being done.

Am I coding it wrong or is it just the email client displaying the results
poorly?

(snip)
<td align='right'>Average Answer:</td><td>1</td></tr><tr>
<td align='right'>National Explanation:</td><td>1</td></tr><tr>
</tr><tr><td height='1' colspan='100%'><hr></td></tr><tr>
<td><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Repair</span></td></tr><tr>
<td align='right'>Staff:</td><td>1</td></tr><tr>
<td align='right'>Explanation:</td><td>1</td></tr><tr>
</tr><tr><td height='8'>&nbsp;</td></tr><tr>
</tr><tr><td height='1' colspan='100%'><hr></td></tr><tr>
</tr></table><table><tr><td align='right'>Comments:</td><td><span
style="white-space: pre; color: #800000; ">This
is
a
test

This is only a test. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs back.
This is still just a test.</span></td></tr><tr>
</tr></table></body></html>


....I've also had it like this (no SPAN tags)...

</tr></table><table><tr><td align='right'>Comments:</td><td
style="white-space: pre; color: #800000; ">This
is
a
test

This is only a test. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs back.
This is still just a test.</td></tr><tr>
</tr></table></body></html>

 

[brucie]

In alt.html Noozer said:

I have an ASP page that generates an HTML formatted email message.

HTML e-mail is STILL evil!!!
http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil_still.shtml

 

[WebcastMaker]

I have an ASP page that generates an HTML formatted email message. It works
fine except for one item...

So what your actually saying is it "doesn't" work fine...

Why would you want to do this when it (like flash eh?) doesn't work on
everyone's machine?

 

[Noozer]

So what your actually saying is it "doesn't" work fine...

Why would you want to do this when it (like flash eh?) doesn't work on
everyone's machine?

Because it only has to work with one email client and I'm trying to
determine if I made an error understanding the CSS property or if it indeed
doesn't work and I shouldn't do it.

 

[Noozer]

In alt.html Noozer said:


HTML e-mail is STILL evil!!!
http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil_still.shtml

Ah, but it's a report and it has to be "pretty" for the boss to understand.
They're impressed and I've proven myself "valuable" to keep around.

: )

Only need it to work in MS Outlook, if it can.

 

[Mark Parnell]

but the inline CSS styling for white-space isn't being done.

Am I coding it wrong or is it just the email client displaying the results
poorly?

Not necessarily poorly:

"Conforming user agents may ignore the 'white-space' property in author
and user style sheets but must specify a value for it in the default
style sheet."
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/text.html#white-space-prop

 

[brucie]

In alt.html Noozer said:

Ah, but it's a report and it has to be "pretty" for the boss to understand.

thats why crayons were invented

They're impressed and I've proven myself "valuable" to keep around.

in other words you put out?

Only need it to work in MS Outlook, if it can.

ensure the crayons are non-toxic

 

[WebcastMaker]

Because it only has to work with one email client and I'm trying to
determine if I made an error understanding the CSS property or if it indeed
doesn't work and I shouldn't do it.

It was a rhetorical question.

 

[Noozer]

but the inline CSS styling for white-space isn't being done.

Not necessarily poorly:

"Conforming user agents may ignore the 'white-space' property in author
and user style sheets but must specify a value for it in the default
style sheet."
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/text.html#white-space-prop

Thanks....

Guess I'll modify the code and try the <PRE> tag to see if I have any better
luck.

Muchos gracias y'all!