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Gmail with HTML showing up as plain text please help - Umoran - Nov 17, 2018
Hello, I am trying to send an email in html using gmail and the way i go about it is i would put random place holders in the email then inspect the element and edit it as html and switch the place holders out for my html code. Once I do that everything seems fine and the email appears in html but once I send it it gets delivered as plain text.
I would really appreciate if someone could help me figure this out, thanks a lot!
RE: Gmail with HTML showing up as plain text please help - Nachfolger - Nov 17, 2018
Does Gmail even allow HTML by default? This honestly doesn't have to do with web development, seek help from Google.
RE: Gmail with HTML showing up as plain text please help - Disease - Nov 18, 2018
(Nov 17, 2018 04:03 PM)Umoran Wrote: Hello, I am trying to send an email in html using gmail and the way i go about it is i would put random place holders in the email then inspect the element and edit it as html and switch the place holders out for my html code. Once I do that everything seems fine and the email appears in html but once I send it it gets delivered as plain text.
I would really appreciate if someone could help me figure this out, thanks a lot!
It sounds like you're looking for something like this? I've heard of using web inspect to craft HTML emails in the Gmail interface. But it has been some time since I've heard anything about it. I can't say one way or the other whether it works today or not. You may just be doing it wrong, or it may no longer work. I imagine it's the former, as I'm sure the extension I just linked you to does just that, but for you. Either way, it may be a viable option for you.
RE: Gmail with HTML showing up as plain text please help - realsunjester - Nov 18, 2018
(Nov 17, 2018 04:03 PM)Umoran Wrote: Hello, I am trying to send an email in html using gmail and the way i go about it is i would put random place holders in the email then inspect the element and edit it as html and switch the place holders out for my html code. Once I do that everything seems fine and the email appears in html but once I send it it gets delivered as plain text.
I would really appreciate if someone could help me figure this out, thanks a lot!
Are you using just the regular compose window in gmail or are you sending it over smtp?
RE: Gmail with HTML showing up as plain text please help - Umoran - Nov 18, 2018
(Nov 18, 2018 07:51 AM)Disease Wrote: It sounds like you're looking for something like this? I've heard of using web inspect to craft HTML emails in the Gmail interface. But it has been some time since I've heard anything about it. I can't say one way or the other whether it works today or not. You may just be doing it wrong, or it may no longer work. I imagine it's the former, as I'm sure the extension I just linked you to does just that, but for you. Either way, it may be a viable option for you.
That definitely looks like it would be helpful I didnt think of looking for a chrome extension for it, thank you i will definitely try it out. And yes you were right I was doing it wrong, i input the whole html code instead of the body only. Now it works. Thanks a lot for your reply.
(Nov 18, 2018 07:57 AM)realsunjester Wrote: Are you using just the regular compose window in gmail or are you sending it over smtp?
I was using gmail but I got it to work finally after about a 100 tries lol. Thank you for your reply man.
RE: Gmail with HTML showing up as plain text please help - Gamble20Esport - Nov 27, 2018
Can you share how you got it to work please
Do you have discord?
RE: Gmail with HTML showing up as plain text please help - Umoran - Nov 30, 2018
(Nov 27, 2018 06:21 PM)Gamble20Esport Wrote: Can you share how you got it to work please
Do you have discord?
For sure I can, PM me with your discord and il add you homie