In SAS^® 9.1, the HTML destination generates HTML 4.0 by default. Prior to SAS^® 9.1 HTML 3.2 was generated by default. Due to this change, the style formatting is not always applied properly in the email due to the process in which ODS HTML streams output to the email access method.

To circumvent the problem in SAS^® 9.1 you can do one of the following:

1. Change ODS to use HTML3. To do this any "ods html ..." line should be changed to "ods html3 ..."

   Example:

   ods html3 file=elecmail style=festival; proc report data=sashelp.class nowd; run; ods html3 close;
2. Save the ODS HTML output to a file and send it as an attachment.

Select the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue if you are running SAS^® 9.1.

In SAS^® 9.2 and higher, using ODS HTML to directly route email may result in the style being applied, but extra gridlines may appear in the output. In order to prevent these extraneous gridlines, use the MSOFFICE2K tagset:

Operating System and Release Information

A fix for SAS 9.1.3 (9.1 TS1M3) for this issue is available at:

A fix for SAS 9.1.3 (9.1 TS1M3) with Asian Language Support (DBCS) for this issue is available at :