Borders might be displayed around titles and footnotes when you use the ODS HTML destination to generate output with SAS^® 9.4. This is most likely to occur when you generate HTML output that is displayed in the body of an e-mail using Microsoft Outlook.

The problem occurs because Microsoft Outlook does not handle the cascading style sheet information correctly. If you view the same file in a browser, the borders around the titles and footnotes are not displayed.

Use one of the circumventions below to prevent borders from appearing around the titles and footnotes.

• Use the ODS MSOffice2K destination to create the output. This works better with Microsoft Office applications than ODS HTML. For example:

  filename output email to="kevin@gmail.com"
                        content_type="text/html"
                        subject="No borders";
  
  ods msoffice2k file=output rs=none;
  
  title "The output does not contain borders around the titles";
  
  proc print data=sashelp.class;
  run;
  
  ods msoffice2k close;
  



• Modify the style to remove the border width. The example code below illustrates this.

  proc template;
     define style styles.test;
        parent=styles.htmlblue;
        class systitleandfootercontainer /
              htmlstyle="border:none";
     end;
  run;
  
  filename output email to="kevin@gmail.com"
                        content_type="text/html"
                        subject="No borders";
  
  ods html file=output rs=none style=styles.test;
  
  title "The output does not contain borders around the titles";
  
  proc print data=sashelp.class;
  run;
  
  ods html close;
  

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