HTML Footers and Outlook/Word 2003?

Thu May 22 11:25:48 IST 2008

Thanks very much for that - appreciate it and will have a test later out of hours.

I'm still of the opinion that whilst it may have been a bit dodgy, the html code wasn't what is/was causing this chaps problem and it's some combination of Word/Outlook/Internet Explorer coupled with a specific set of actions, but I appreciate the feedback off everyone.

Cheers,
Paul

Paul Hutchings
Network Administrator, MIRA Ltd.
Tel: 44 (0)24 7635 5378
Fax: 44 (0)24 7635 8378
mailto:paul.hutchings at mira.co.uk

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Subject: Re: HTML Footers and Outlook/Word 2003?

On Wed, 21 May 2008 18:45:31 +0100
"Paul Hutchings" <paul.hutchings at mira.co.uk> wrote:

> Thanks, I'm afraid I'm not an HTML person so it was knocked up in an
> HTML editor that obviously looked right but wasn't (weird how 5
> editors can knock out 5 different sets of HTML for something that
> looks so simple!).
> 
> I've passed it through the html parser and unless someone can give me
> a reason not to use it, this is what it spits out:
> 
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
> <html>
> <head>
> <meta name="generator" content=
> "HTML Tidy for Linux/x86 (vers 11 February 2007), see www.w3.org">
> <title></title>
> </head>
> <body>
> <hr>
> <font face="tahoma,arial" size="2"><b>MIRA Ltd</b><br>
> Watling Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0TU, England.<br>
> Registered in England and Wales No. 402570<br>
> VAT Registration GB 114 5409 96<br>
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The only problem is that it does not contain a character encoding.
Passing it through an HTML parser should reveal that.

I have rewritten the above so that it will pass as "Transitional". I
also rewrote it to pass as "Strict" The code for "transitional" follows:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
  <head>
    <meta name="generator"
          content=
          "HTML Tidy for Linux/x86 (vers 11 February 2007), see
www.w3.org"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
          content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
    <title></title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <hr>
    <p>
      <font face="tahoma,arial"
         size="2"><b>MIRA Ltd</b><br>
      Watling Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0TU, England.<br>
      Registered in England and Wales No. 402570<br>
      VAT Registration GB 114 5409 96<br>
      <br>
      The contents of this e-mail are confidential and are solely for
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  </body>
</html>

You can use the following to pass "Strict" HTML coding requirements. I
would suggest that you use this one:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
  <head>
    <title>
      Signature
    </title>
    <meta name="generator"
          content="HTML-Kit">
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
          content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
  </head>
  <body>
    <hr>
    <p style="font: Tahoma, Arial; font-size: 1em">
      <span style="font-weight: 800">MIRA Ltd</span><br>
      Watling Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0TU, England.<br>
      Registered in England and Wales No. 402570<br>
      VAT Registration GB 114 5409 96<br>
      <br>
      The contents of this e-mail are confidential and are solely for
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    </p>
  </body>
</html>

Good luck!

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