Creating an HTML email message

You may create an HTML message using the HtmlEmailMessage class. An HTML message consists of both HTML and plain-text parts. The HTML part is what will be displayed to mail clients that are capable of displaying HTML messages and have this option enabled. The plain-text part is what will be displayed to mail clients that are not capable of displaying HTML or have the option to display HTML messages disabled.

Example

String text = "This is the text part";

String html = "<b>This is the HTML part</b>";

// create new HtmlEmailMessage instance and set To, From and Subject headers

HtmlEmailMessage message = new HtmlEmailMessage();

message.setTo("to@domain.com");

message.setFrom("from@domain.com");

message.setSubject("Sample HTML message");

// set text part

message.setTextBody(text);

// set HTML part

message.setHtmlBody(html);

As shown above creating an HTML message is very similar to creating a regular email message using the EmailMessage class. As with the EmailMessage class you may send this message using the Smtp class.