Escaping HTML 转义字符

Question

I'm writing an email, and I want to include some custom HTML formatting like:

<p>Hello Friend</p><br><br>

If I write the above directly in the email body, the email program will automatically escape out of characters like <, >, and &. resulting in the following:

<p>Hello Friend</p><br><br>

Is there a way to avoid or reverse this escaping?

The problem is also occurring with a Mail Merge type software called GovDelivery. I want to put HTML inside their "macros" but GovDelivery automatically escapes out of the characters making it impossible to have custom formats per email.

Answer 1

The email provider does this to prevent against Cross Site Scripting (XSS) attacks and is most likely intentional behavior.

As a solution, most services that disable this behavior use Markdown . That may result in similar behavior to what you want.