How is $ORDER_TOTALS translated into HTML email?

I can understand how ZC translates the language file texts into HTML emails. It's literally word for word.

But how about things like the order total? On a web page the order totals are aligned to the right, and the same in the email, so it seems that certain style information gets carried across too? Or is the right alignment hard coded into the checkout confirmation email?

I'm asking this because I'm having trouble with formatting the order total in the checkout confirmaiton email. So knowing how it works may help me find a solution. Thanks!

If you look at email/email_template_checkout.html, look at the top of the file; there is a bunch of styling. Then look down to the body of the email, and it says

just change this class to something you like better that you've coded at the top.

You probably don't want to restyle order-detail-area because this is used for other fields.

Good luck,
Scott

Scott thanks for your reply.

I've tested maybe 100 emails this weekend, and I'm pretty sure the right alignment of the order totals is caused by something extrinsic to the html template.

If you remove everything in the template, I mean all the other placeholders, all the styles, except the order total placeholder, the html email that the customer receives, will still have the order totals flushed to the right side. The text email doesn't do that. So that's why I think it's caused by something extrinsic.

/includes/classes/order.php```
//order totals area
$html_ot .= '<td class="order-totals-text" align="right" width="100%">' . ' ' . '</td> ' . "\n" . '<td class="order-totals-num" align="right" nowrap="nowrap">' . '---------' .'</td> </tr>' . "\n" . '<tr>';
for ($i=0, $n=sizeof($order_totals); $i<$n; $i++) {
$email_order .= strip_tags($order_totals[$i]['title']) . ' ' . strip_tags($order_totals[$i]['text']) . "\n";
$html_ot .= '<td class="order-totals-text" align="right" width="100%">' . $order_totals[$i]['title'] . '</td> ' . "\n" . '<td class="order-totals-num" align="right" nowrap="nowrap">' .($order_totals[$i]['text']) .'</td> </tr>' . "\n" . '<tr>';
}
$html_msg['ORDER_TOTALS'] = '<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"> ' . $html_ot . ' </table>';

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