Table in cfmail tag

Question 1

You need to use the type="html" attribute on the CFMAIL tag.

You might also want to consider wrapping your HTML content in the appropriate HTML and Body tags, as you would normally expect from a HTML template.

<cfmail from="ABC@xyz.com"
            to="#InvestigatorEmail#" 
            subject="Reminder #flagReminder#:: Incident Report: #report_number#"
type="html"> 
<html>
<body>
            <style>
    BODY {
        PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: ##fff
    }
    BODY {
        FONT-SIZE: 11px; COLOR: ##595959; LINE-HEIGHT: 14px; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif
    }
    P {
        FONT-SIZE: 11px; COLOR: ##595959; LINE-HEIGHT: 14px; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif
    }
    LI {
        FONT-SIZE: 11px; COLOR: ##595959; LINE-HEIGHT: 14px; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif
    }

    A {
        COLOR: ##0c479d; TEXT-DECORATION: none
    }
    A:hover {
        BACKGROUND-COLOR: ##d3deed
    }

    table{
            width:100%;
            border-bottom:1px solid ##eee;
            clear:both;
            color:##000;
            margin-bottom:10px;
            FONT-SIZE: 11px; COLOR: ##595959; LINE-HEIGHT: 14px; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif
        }
    td {
            padding:3px 4px;
            vertical-align:top;
            border-right:1px solid ##ddd;
            color:##000;
            font-weight:bold;
            margin:0;
        }
    tr.odd {
            background-color:##ffffcb
        }
    td.row-header {
            width:100px;
            font-weight:normal;
        }

    </style>        

The below Incident Report has been assigned to you on     #DateFormat(InvestigationAssigned_tms,"dd-mmm-yyyy")#</br></br>

                <table width="720">
                <tr>
                    <td>Incident Report #</td>
                    <td>Person Involved</td>
                    <td>Incident Description</td>
                    <td>Incident Location</td>
                    <td>Status</th>
                    <td>Investigation Assigned Date</td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td>#report_number#</td>
                    <td>#NameOfPersonInvolved#</td>
                    <td>#IncidentDescription#</td>
                    <td>#IncidentLocationCity#</td>
                    <td>#reportStatus#</td>
                    <td>#InvestigationAssigned_tms#</td>
                </tr>
                </table>
</body>

Hope this works for you?

Also note, that your issues may be due to the complexities of using CSS in emails...which is always a pain. CSS support in emails is limited and very basic. This isn't a ColdFusion / CFML issue, it's just the way HTML emails are today.

I would recommend moving your CSS to be 'inline' on the HTML tags themselves, as email clients often strip out the STYLE tags.

Mikey.

Question 2

It's really simple, you just need to add a type to your cfmail tag. It would look something like

<cfmail to="recipient" from="sender" subject="subject" type="html"></cfmail>

Question 3

Alternatively, you can specify the HTML part using the cfmailpart tag. This also allows you to specify a separate plaintext version for anyone who might be using a mail browser that won't render HTML.

e.g.

<cfmail>
      <cfmailpart type="html">... your table here ...</cfmailpart>
      <cfmailpart type="text">A plaintext version for everyone else</cfmailpart>
</cfmail>

NB: don't specify both the type="html" on the <cfmail> tag AND the <cfmailpart> tags together. Either do one or the other (it's simpler to just do the type="html" on the <cfmail> but I prefer to do both plaintext and HTML).