Gmail Lets You Send HTML Email
Monday April 4, 2005
Now when you sign up for Gmail not only will you get something different along with 2GB of space for your email, you will now be able to send HTML formatted email. No need to know HTML to do it either.
Creating an HTML fomatted newsletter has never been easier. With this new email tool from Gmail you can create HTML formatted newsletters without knowing HTML.
All you have to do is click on the "Compose Mail" button, just like you normally would to open a new message you want to send. When the page opens click on where it says "Rich formatting". A whole new list of buttons will show up that you can use to create your HTML formatted email without ever having to actually use HTML.
Change backgroung colors and text colors. Make things bold, italic or underlined. Add hyperlinks or bulleted and numbered lists. Change your font styles and font sizes. Indent and align your paragraphs.
Comments
link for tool doesn’t work…
Is there a way to put in the actual html? I’ve already made the email in an html editor now I want to send it. It uses tables and stuff to look more pro and I really don’t think I could make this with the crappy gmail editor.
Please advise! I’m in trouble here… might have to ditch gmail my one and only email!!!
You can’t use html tags in gmail but you can use the text editor to do it for you.
If you really want to use your own html what you can do is set up your gmail address to send from another email program (ie. outlook express) on your computer and send from there.
I couldn’t figure out how to use html in outlook express either. Other than an attachment.
tnx it’s just what i was searching for.
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Unable to find “Rich Format”
Jim, the rich formatting option is on by default these days. If you hit the “Plain text” link above the composition area, you’ll see that you can toggle modes.
Well, the article is a lil rusty already…but it will help if you tell the masses what are the requirements for Gmail to show correctly HTML emails, as it ignores any stylesheets that aren’t declared directly within the elements. In other words:
Text
So if you declared styles in the section – forget about Gmail displaying it. At least that’s my observation.
I don’t see a way to embed an image. There are no insert image or edit HTML buttons.
This isn’t really HTML at all, it’s just Rich Text Formatting.
I found this blog thinking I could find a way to create my own HTML formatted email “stationery” but I guess not.
Yes, this is very misleading. Some limited interface to create some rich text is hardly sending html via email.
As others have noted, I think the only way to really send an html message via gmail is to use a native mail client (like Thunderbird) that connects to gamil via SMTP or POP.
This is WYSIWYG, not HTML. Subtle but important difference.
Hi..!
to compose a mail with your own html formatting :
1-> compose you mail, using any html editor, save file as .html
2-> open .html file with Firefox or IE
3-> select Edit>Select all or Ctrl+A to select all of your messages.
4-> paste in compose window gmail. Voila!
ps: Not working in IE? Get rid of IE asap, switch to Firefox. IE sucks!
hello
how many send Html Mail with gmail in a day ?
thanks
Fist make an HTML file
Use Google toolbar to sent this.
It has button sent to -> Gmail
First make an HTML file
Use Google toolbar to sent this.
It has button sent to -> Gmail
EDIT, RUN, COPY AND PASTE –
Nostalgia is right. The BEST way to set up and send an HTML email is to write the code with an editor, save it as an HTML file, run it, Copy All, and paste into a gMail email. Zero problems.
I got the copy from Firefox and paste into gmail, but my images are not getting copied. Does anybody know how to fix that? Thanks!
Klaus, I think you need to load your pictures onto the web and I suspect your pictures are in the hard drive.
Try sign up for a free google site at “sites.google.com”. Then learn to upload pictures there (it is free). When your pictures/photos are uploaded, copy the links.
Next Steps : When you are in the HTML editor, insert the pictures using the link above i.e. pictures are being inserted from the web vs the hard drive.
Now you will be able to cut and paste into Gmail and all your pictures will appear (cuz they are being read from the web). Hope this helps.
thank you nostalgia, seems you clear everyone’s problem
Funny how a useless blog post ends up with a useful solution in the comments. Thanks guys.
it does not work unless you want to hand code it all into the composition area..It does work if you copy and past html into compose area.
http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Help-Composing-Messages-en/browse_thread/thread/b3f2c9bc9f1fbab2?pli=1
maybe some one finds solution from this link
I did what Nostalgia wrote about creating html viewing it and copying and pasting. However I wanted to have a link to a section of the email. It didn’t work in gmail from firefox on a mac. Any suggestions
link doesnt work, are there other options?
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such a simple point, but no one else was saying it!
Thanks Linda for putting up the article.
Thanks Nostalgia, for giving such and effective and easy solution. Now I am really feeling nostalgic
Nostaligia.
You are a TOTAL TOTAL LEGEND!!!
Thank you so much for saving me and so many others alot of misery.
either I am really stupid (but actually I don’t really believe that) or that copy and paste stuff just doesn’t work. I don’t even understand how it ever could work.
you just can’t copy text and hope it to become html …
I do not believe in magic …
justbridge:
when you use the copy function in a web browser (firefox, anyway), it copies the html mark-up, not just the text, so when you copy it into an editor that uses html, it retains the formatting (try copying your favorite website and pasting into MS Word)
the copy and paste works great, as long as everything is in 1 html file (no linked stylesheets or images)
thanks, Nostalgia
Thanks nostalgia…
I guess u’ll have to make sure you’re pasting from firefox into an html composition (so even if ua using gmail it has to be not plain text composition)
also note worthy is that external stylesheets won’t work (@ least for now). So inline style sheets should do the trick.
for the ‘geeky ones’ this link may provide even more info… http://www.sitepoint.com/article/code-html-email-newsletters/
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