bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Is there a way to detect the presence of HTML tags?
> 
> I don't want them stripped out, I just want to know if a string contains
> them.
> 
> I'm rolling my own mailing program and want it to detect the HTML if
> present and send it appropriately.
> 
> kind regards,
> 
> bill hollett
> 

Regex is the way to go, but as an aside - the mere presence of html
tags in a mail message body does not make it an HTML message.  It is
perfectly reasonable to send a message containing something like this:

   "That HTML tag you're looking for is <span>"

and expect it to NOT be rendered as HTML on the other end but displayed
exactly as you typed it.

Likewise it's legitimate to send a "text/html" message that contains
no HTML elements at all.

When sending HTML mail a program should only set the content-type
to "text/html" if the sender explicitly requests it, not when it
detects HTML elements in the body.

Mark

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