Body tab

The Body tab of the Universal Email dialog box specifies the message content for the email created by your application.

Specified email content can be previewed in this dialog for both HTML and Plain Text version in the corresponding tabs.

For the current tab selected, you may specify content either using a text editor opened using the Edit (pencil) icon, or by editing a file directly within Dreamweaver opened using the Edit (DW) icon.

Editing your email content within Dreamweaver allows you to take advantage of its available features, including html developemnt, dynamic data tools, and css capabilities. Additional functionality provided by other WebAssist software, such as eCart and DataAssist, can also be used to assist in developing your email content.

The page opened to edit your content is a temporary page, and saving it will return the updated content to the Universal Email dialog. It should be noted:
  • Relative locations for links and images need to be updated to contain the full path. Once an email has been sent by your application, it will need a full path to a location, as it will be outside of your staged environment and in somebody's mailbox.
  • CSS will work if specified in-line, but any style declarations that are normally placed in the head will need to be specified in the editable region called "emailhead" when created in this document window. This editable region is only visible in code view in DW.
  • Any server-side code that you wish to be run on the page that would be normally be placed above the head tag needs to be specified on the page you are applying the Universal Email server behavior to.


In the text editor, there are three features of the user interface available to help in creating the content for your message:
  • Content window - allows you to directly type in text or code to be used within the body content.
  • Adding eCommerce with Paypal - this image links directly to help documentation explaining how to add PayPal payment buttons to your email body content.
  • Get from File button - opens the Select a File For Your Mail Body dialog box to choose a source document to import body content. When importing ASP, PHP, or CFML pages, source code using server-side content is supported.