Gmail & HTML

geranimo://

geranimo://

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How come Gmail shows html emails like this?


<html>
<head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /></head>
<body style=font-family:verdana;font-size:10px>
 
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Artoonie

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if you mean the body style, its so that the formatting appears on the other persons email also probably.
if you mean the meta, its something to do with the utf-8 email formats, but i dont know much more than that.
i doubt that helped =/
 
geranimo://

geranimo://

New Member
No, I understand.

So you mean everybody else got it like this? I thought maybe it had something to do with safety from Google disabeling html in emails?
 
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Artoonie

New Member
wait, in the actual email it shows that, or in the "full email" which includes a bunch of jibberish at the top and bottom?

if all your emails come like that normally, then i dont know what is wrong, gmail disables you from typing html, so if the sender is trying to use it, it wont work. the only way html works in gmail is by copying and pasting the actual product of the html (such as copy/paste from a WYSIWYG)

if that was too confusing, let me try organizing my thoughts a little more...
Gmail rarely allows you to send html, but it does allow you to recieve it. However, only certain html can be recieved. The <head> tags and such are not neccesary in emails, and gmail probably disables them. If every single email from every provider (yahoo, hotmail, gmail, etc) shows up llike that, then I do not know.

hope that helps.
 
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