Question on phpmailer external link img not controllabe with css

I can't seem to find a solution to the following problem. I can't control the image size, on email sent using phpmailer, no matter what I do for links that pull specifically from Linkedin. So the source that comes to the email is, for example:

<figure><a href="https://www.mywebsite.com/products/ap.php" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><img style="width:50px; height=" autoalt="No alt text provided for this image" id="ember43" loading="lazy" src="https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/D4E12AQGP40Gx347Lyw/article-inline_image-shrink_1000_1488/0/1678714121121?e=1684368000&amp;v=beta&amp;t=F0KMkmsp7r3agMZQN_Yp8u2XJPX37h78ZeZPcdtNbGU" style="height: 375px; width: 500px;"></a></figure>

The email code looks like this:

<?php
$Email = new WA_Email("newsletter");
$Email->From = "My Company <noreply@mycompany.com>";
$Email->CharSet = "UTF-8";
$Email->addTo("webmaster@mycompany.com");
$Email->BodyFile = "../webassist/email/templates/newsletter.php";
if (function_exists("rel2abs") && $Email->Redirect) $Email->Redirect = $Email->Redirect?rel2abs($Email->Redirect,dirname(__FILE__)):"";
for ($emailGroup=0; $emailGroup<sizeof($Email->To); $emailGroup++) {
$Email->Subject = "My company Newsletter";
$Email->send($emailGroup);
}
$Email->close();
?>

This is for a Newlsetter that boss writes thru Linkedin. I am using the Webassist tools to Update the content. When I paste directly from Linkedin email, it includes the photos automatically without me having to download every image that was included. I like that ...just Cut and Paste and Done. ...If I could just make the image size to obey the CSS rule. I don't know if Linkedin CSS takes over or what, but they just appear gigantic on the Email received. Just to clarify, I am resending Email using PHP mailer apart from the email sent by my boss thru Linkedin.

Your image has two style tags... the first one will be ignored:

<img style="width:50px; height=" autoalt="No alt text provided for this image" id="ember43" loading="lazy" src="https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/D4E12AQGP40Gx347Lyw/article-inline_image-shrink_1000_1488/0/1678714121121?e=1684368000&amp;v=beta&amp;t=F0KMkmsp7r3agMZQN_Yp8u2XJPX37h78ZeZPcdtNbGU" style="height: 375px; width: 500px;">

This is the one that would be active:
style="height: 375px; width: 500px;"

Remove that and your other style tag should work.

Still comes in gigantic. Didn't realize I had it 2x on this last test but here's the new code inspect from the email. It shows up probably over 1000px wide getting past the screen scrolling to the right.

<figure><a href="https://www.mywebsite.com/products/ap.php" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><img alt="No alt text provided for this image" id="ember43" loading="lazy" src="https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/D4E12AQGP40Gx347Lyw/article-inline_image-shrink_1000_1488/0/1678714121121?e=1684368000&amp;v=beta&amp;t=F0KMkmsp7r3agMZQN_Yp8u2XJPX37h78ZeZPcdtNbGU" style="height: 75px; width: 100px;"></a></figure>

It's totally ignoring that 'style='.

Try moving the style tag to the front of the tag in case something before it is causing issues. I'd remove the loading="lazy" part. That won't work in an email body. Then send me the resulting email and I'll take a look.

I forwarded it to your email. From the 2nd pict on, they are the ones pulling from Linkedin. I think I left the loading='lazy' on one accidentally, nonetheless they all come in big, except the one pulling in from our website.

Also. I would like the Webassist email to authenticate and put in the Sent box. I have code that will do that when using phpmailer (without using Webassist code), but it won't read the PHP code so I get some php code in the email.

never mind the file_get_contents question for the layout. I used:

ob_start();
include '../webassist/email/templates/newsletter.php';
$mail->Body = ob_get_clean();

and it lays out the newsletter ok (although it introduces other issues. But I got a step further).