title: gmail is not displaying html text properly
body: <p>I made script that sends html email messages to users. However, in Gmail, I can't seem to get the font color working. It works for the first message, but the next messages in the conversation are all displayed in purple.</p>
  
  <p>It only happens when I get the strings from .txt files using file_get_Contents()). If I fill the variables with strings from within my class or enter the message directly rather than using variables gmail displays the html normally. I haven't found any problems with other webmail or mail clients. For the actual sending of the mail I tried both <a href="https://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/phpmailer/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">phpmailer</a> and the regular mail() function.</p>
  
  <pre><code>    $message = "&lt;html&gt;&lt;body&gt;&lt;font face='Georgia, Times' color='red'&gt;";
      $message .= "&lt;p&gt;Beste " . $this-&gt;name . "&lt;/p&gt;";
      $message .= "&lt;p&gt;" . $parPersonal . "&lt;/p&gt;";
      $message .= "&lt;p&gt;" . $parOne . "&lt;/p&gt;";
      $message .= "&lt;p&gt;" . $parTwo . "&lt;/p&gt;";
      $message .= "&lt;p&gt;" . $parThree . "&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;";
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>A screenshot from gmail:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/h8cLL.jpg" alt="https://imgur.com/h8cLL"></p>
  
  <p>On a side note, this script will usually only send 1 email to 1 person at a time and this problem shouldn't appear, it is currently just mailing to my own gmail account for testing purposes. However, I'm extremely curious how I can fix this for future purposes.</p>