Desktop.mail Mailto with HTML formatted email

Question

I'm trying to make my application send an email with an HTML formatted table in the body. I've got the text to be visible in the email, but it doesn't format according to the tags and the tags are visible. HTML email is turned on in the email client.
I've been searching all over for a solution. Are there some escape characters I need to use? Has anyone been able to do this or have any ideas?
String html = "<table>";
        for (int x = 0; x < reportTable.size();x++){
            ReporterObject table = reportTable.get(x);
            html = html+"<tr>" +
                    "<td>"+table.getReportDate()+"</td>" +
                    "<td>"+table.getSchoolName()+"</td>" +
                    "<td>"+table.getTeacherSpoken()+"</td>"+
                    "<td>"+table.getGoal()+"</td>" +
                     "<td>"+table.getAchieved()+"</td>" +
                     "<td>"+table.getPercentAchieved()+"</td>"+
                     "<td>"+table.getApproaches()+"</td>" +
                     "<td>"+table.getAppointments()+"</td>"+
                     "<td>"+table.getGIEA()+"</td>" +
                     "<td>"+table.getReport()+"</td>" +
                     "</tr>";
        html = html + "</table>";
URI email = new URI("mailto", "mailto:?to=" + emailField.getText() + " &SUBJECT=AL Reports &BODY=" + greeting + html + salutation, null);

Answer 1

Please see
http://javaalmanac.com/egs/javax.mail/SendApp.html
for Quintessential Program to Send E-Mail.
Then substitute line
msg.setText(content);
/with this one
msg.setContent( content , "text/html");
it should do in simplest form.