title: default font when sending html email with php, viewing in outlook
body: <p>I am trying to figure out a way to specify a default font for my outgoing HTML emails.
  The reason for this is because outlook's default font is in Times New Roman, and I would like it to be in Arial instead. </p>
  
  <p>I tried doing <code>&lt;body style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;</code></p>
  
  <p>but a &lt; a href> tag within a &lt; table> in my email, for example, still shows up in Times in Outlook.</p>
  
  <p>I also tried doing a global css declaration, like </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;style&gt; 
  body {font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; }
  &lt;/style&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and this didn't do it as well.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to specify a default font for my HTML, without having to hardcode the font face in each link? </p>
  
  <p>This will work obviously in outlook  <code>&lt; a href=# style="font-family: Arial,  Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;</code></p>