topic HTML TAGS ARE NOT WORKING IN SAS in ODS and Base Reporting

HTML TAGS ARE NOT WORKING IN SAS

kuridisanjeev — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 11:14:44 GMT

Hi All....

I am trying something new on this Christmas with the SAS..

I am writing a mail to all my friends saying merry Christmas by writing some code in SAS and sending that too with SAS.

In the process of sending wishes i am getting some ODD results from SAS.Can any one please get me out of this problems and lets me to send greetings to all..

I was wrote bellow code..

options symbolgen ;

filename mail email from = "kuridisanjeev@gmail.com"

SUBJECT="MERRY CHRISTMAS"

to="kuridisanjeev@gmail.com"

CT = "TEXT/HTML";

ods _all_ close;

ODS LISTING CLOSE;

ODS HTML BODY = mail RS=NONE STYLE = NORMAL;

Data _NULL_;

file print ;

put "<body bgcolor='biyg'>";

put "<center><IMG SRC='C:\Users\sanjeevK\Desktop.JPG' <br></center>" ;

put "<h2><left><font size='+6' face='monotype corsiva' color='magenta'><BLINK><b>MERRY CHRISTMAS </b></BLINK></font></left></h2>";

put @22"<font size= '+1' color='bio'><blink>@</blink></font>";

do i=0 to 18;

b=substr(repeat('SA',i),1,2*i+1);

put @(20-i) "<blink>* </blink><font size=2pt color= green >" b "</font><blink>*</blink>";

end;

put @23'|| ||';

run;

ODS html close;

Above code was executing with out any error and warning and i am getting the mail also...

But the mail not showing what actually i was sent..

Here i am attaching my mail and i desired output which needs to be show in the mail..

Please help me on this..

Thanks in Advance..

Regards..

Sanjeev.K

Re: HTML TAGS ARE NOT WORKING IN SAS

kuridisanjeev — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 11:39:07 GMT

FYI...

I ran this Code in both SAS 9.2 and SAS EG4.1,Both giving almost same result...

And in my above code i wrote "ODS HTML BODY="C:\Users\sanjeevK\test.HTML" instead of writing "ODS HTML BODY = mail RS=NONE STYLE = NORMAL;"..

A HTML file was creating in the Specified path and CHRISTMAS tree was displaying but "*" symbol was not blinking(i wrote * in blink tag in above code)..

Re: HTML TAGS ARE NOT WORKING IN SAS

Cynthia_sas — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 17:57:55 GMT

Hi:

As far as I know, the HTML spec says that an HTML file can have only 1 <BODY> tag. ODS HTML writes a <BODY> tag and your code writes a <BODY> tag. In addition, this article implies that the <BLINK> tag doesn't work for images: HTML Shop of Horrors: Blink Tag | TechRepublic and this article implies that the <BLINK> tag could be harmful: http://boingboing.net/2010/04/08/blink-tag-considered.html . And, I'm not sure what this W3C snippet refers to, but it seems odd: http://www.w3.org/Style/HTML40-plus-blink.dtd; however, this info on the W3C site seems to imply that you should not use <BLINK>: HTML/Elements/blink - W3C Wiki .

Using BODY=email will only cause the HTML text to be written to the email. Images are pointed to with the SRC= attribute of an <IMG> tag. Since your <IMG> tag points to your local C: drive, unless EVERY person who gets your mail has access to your personal C: drive, they won't see the IMAGE tag. Or, you use a relative reference in your <IMG> tag, and you attach the image to your email.

Perhaps you could send the greetings of the season a different way.

cynthia

Re: HTML TAGS ARE NOT WORKING IN SAS

kuridisanjeev — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 09:18:50 GMT

Hi Cynthia..

Thank you for your prompt..

I forgot to mention one things in my above post.

I Executed same code(which mentioned in my earlier post) in SAS EG 4.3,And i opened my mail box in Mozilla Thunderbird.mail body showing perfectly what i am looking for,and even Blinking also happening for " * "..

Why this is not happening in Gmail ??

Any Idea on this????

Thanks..

Sanjeev.K

Re: HTML TAGS ARE NOT WORKING IN SAS

Cynthia_sas — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 14:55:38 GMT

Hi:

Well, that tells me that 1) the problem isn't a SAS problem, it's a rendering problem. And 2) it tells me that there's something different between Mozilla and Gmail. So, my guess would be that 3) the the folks at Google don't allow non-conforming HTML tags. However, the question "Why this is not happening in Gmail" is a question for Google Tech Support or Gmail Tech Support. Otherwise, it's just a guess as to why it works in Mozilla and not in Gmail.

cynthia