how to make java string bold and colored

Question

I am developing email application using java. I have a string as follows :

String msg= "College Email \nHello"+" "+name+"\n"+"You are selected As 'Admin'.\n Please use Given username and password for login\n \Username:"+" "+username+" "+"Password:"+" "+password+"";

I want send this string as email message. and i want to "BOLD and color" username and password(I want to show this message in inbox i.e on browser). how can i embed HTML tags to do this ? OR is there any simple way to do this without using HTML tags ?

Can any one correct above string (msg) OR provide any link or code to fix this problem ?

thank you.

agreed too, the body of message can be taken between HTML and plain text. — jasen.yin, Oct 15 '13 at 08:01

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 15 '13 at 08:00

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Just type the tags into your message like String msg = "<strong>Hello World!</strong> and send it as a HTML message, you only need to set type of the content via MimeMessage#setContent() method like

message.setContent(msg, "text/html; charset=utf-8");`

answered Oct 15 '13 at 08:00

Petr Mensik

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hi petr ...how can i instantiate MimeMessage ?? is it like this : MimeNessage message =new MimeMessage(arg0); message.setContent(msg,"....") Actully arg0 is required as argument.. How can i do this ?? – Rohhit Oct 15 '13 at 08:06
Just do `Message msg = new MimeMessage(yourSession)`; – Petr Mensik Oct 15 '13 at 08:09

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 15 '13 at 08:03

If you want to do it the old school, vanilla java way you can use the org.w3c.dom.Document API to get the work done.

It has a bunch of useful methods for creating and manipulating elements such as createElement, createAttribute, etc. to do what you want.

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/org/w3c/dom/Document.html

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 15 '13 at 08:10

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As per the Javadoc, the MimeMessage#setText() sets a default mime type of text/plain, while you need text/html. Rather use MimeMessage#setContent() instead.

String someHtmlMessage = "Hello this is test message <b style='color:blue;'>bold color</b>";

message.setContent(someHtmlMessage, "text/html; charset=utf-8");

Note that the HTML should not contain the <html>, <head> or <body>. Gmail will ignore it. See also CSS support in mail clients.

answered Oct 15 '13 at 08:10

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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5068827/how-do-i-send-html-email-via-java - little big copypasta, don't you think?:-) – Petr Mensik Oct 15 '13 at 08:16
Yes but it is changed something which in question he want. – Ashwin Parmar Oct 15 '13 at 08:20

how to make java string bold and colored

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