'Add bold text and line break into Laravel Notification Email

Laravel 5.6

I'm attempting to send a Laravel Notification via email. I want to make make some of the text bold, and put in line breaks, without a whole new paragraph that the line($text) method brings. So I have tried this in the notification class. I have also tried using the \n string for new line.

return (new MailMessage)
->subject('Booking Confirmed - Please Read')
->greeting('Hello ' . $this->booking->user->first_name . ',')
->line('Thank you for booking. Here are your booking details:')
->line($this->booking->provider->providerType->name . '<br>' .
    $date . '<br>' .
    $this->booking->start_at . '<br>' .
    $this->booking->address_1 . '<br>' .
    $this->booking->address_2 . '<br>' .
    $this->booking->address_3 . '<br>' .
    $this->booking->city . '<br>' .
    $this->booking->postcode . '<br>' .
    '£' . $this->booking->price
)
->line('<strong>Need to cancel?</strong><br>' .
    'Don\'t forget to contact the provider on the details above if you need to cancel or reschedule. 
    They won\'t mind, as long as you tell them.'
)
->line('<strong>Payment</strong><br>' .
    'Pay the Service provider direct as you normally would. This keeps things simple and costs down.'
)
->line('<strong>FAQ\'s</strong><br>' .
    'Please click here for more information'
)
->line('<strong>Don\'t forget to leave feedback after!</strong><br>' .
    'Help build your relationship with your Service Providers by leaving feedback'
)
->line('We hope to see you again soon!')

I have tried with and without publishing the blade templates via the php artisan vendor:publish --tag=laravel-mail command and then updating {{$line}} to {!! $line !!}} with no joy. Can't figure it out.

It prints put like this in mailtrap enter image description here

phphtmllaravelnotifications


Solution 1:[1]

I figured this out, incase anyone else out there is as dumb as me.
I think there are 2 reasons why this was broken. @DouwedeHaan suggested I use double quotes instead of single when using \n which didn't do much but combined with the next part I think did the trick.

The blade template that renders the html is in markdown. I hadn't figured this out. The layout of it is specific, and I had accidentally broken it after I published it by removing some lines and formatting the file with indents which broke everything.

I deleted the file, re-published the template updated all instanced of {{$line}} to {!! $line !!} ensuring to leave the rest of the file as is, updated my notification to use double quotes and stuck with <br/> and <strong></strong> tags and now it works as expected.

enter image description here

Solution 2:[2]

Perhaps you have done your job as the question is so old. But I would like to share an easy way to write an HTML tag on the Laravel mail template.

First of all, you are required to import use Illuminate\Support\HtmlString;

->line(new HtmlString('Last date: <strong>' . $this->due_date . '</strong>'))

The HtmlString class enable you to write HTML tag on mail body. It would be helpful for someone who is looking for this type of solution.

Thanks.

Solution 3:[3]

Use normal line breaks with single quotes

'This will create a
new line'

or use \n with double quotes

"This will also create a \n new line"

More info here

Solution 4:[4]

I'm not sure which version of Laravel it was introduced in, but you can use Markdown in MailMessage, so HtmlString is not necessary if simple formatting is all that is required.

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Solution Source
Solution 1 John Halsey
Solution 2 Nazmus Shakib
Solution 3 Douwe de Haan
Solution 4 Brendan

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