HTML code changing in Outlook

G

GwenP

Would anyone be able to shed some light on why - if I attach an HTML file
into my email as text then send it an view the source - the code has changed
and therefore my hyperlinks no longer work?

This is the original code in the htm file:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16705" name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY>

<SCRIPT type=text/vbscript>

Function OpenDoc(DocPath)

DIM oWSH

Set oWSH= CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

oWSH.Run "view32.exe " & DocPath, 1, True

set oWSH = nothing
End Function

</SCRIPT>

<A href="#"
onclick="OpenDoc('\\ourfiles\docs_dir\ws_ourlegal\ourname\2610\1\7832966.1')">Tip 07 - Using the Elite Auto Matters workspace</A><BR>
<FONT face=Arial color=#ff0000
size=4><STRONG>Gwen</STRONG></FONT></BODY></HTML>

and this is the view source code from Outlook:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16705" name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY>
<DIV>
<SCRIPT type=text/vbscript>

Function OpenDoc(DocPath)

DIM oWSH

Set oWSH= CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

oWSH.Run "view32.exe " & DocPath, 1, True

set oWSH = nothing
End Function

</SCRIPT>

<A onclick="OpenDoc('\\lofile\ws_docs\ws_legal\colinc\2610\1\7832966.1')"
href="outbind://47/#">Tip 07 - Using the Elite Auto Matters
workspace</A>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#ff0000
size=4><STRONG>Gwen</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML>

Thanks
GwenP
 
K

Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]

Both Outlook and WordMail editors will re-write your HTML, there's nothing
you can do about that. You must have the HTML fully and correctly formatted
to have a prayer of preserving what you want. Aside from Outlook not liking
to run HTML that runs scripts, you will need to use a fully qualified
protocol reference such as "FILE://", you can't use shorthand HTML and
expect it to remotely resemble what you want.
 

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