Send email using c# to a Gmail account - html formatting issues

I've built a small client applicatoin in c#. I am sending the emails开发者_JAVA百科 via gmail. When I format my html and add underlines, using the following format:

<span style="text-decoration:underline"> hello </span>

Gmails ignore my underlining. Is there any workaround?

Thank you

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email clients are notoriously bad at standards compliance,

Try the <u></u> tag around your text and see how that works for you.

There is actually a group trying to establish some standards in html for email clients. They also have a list of recommendations on what issues exist in certain email clients, for instance gmail.