How do I create an HTML email message?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Margaret Bartley
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Margaret Bartley

Outlook 2003, on an XP machine, in Internet mode.

When I look:ed at the source of an HTML email that was sent to me, it
started:
<html>
<head>

and ended

</div>
</html>


I have a simple html file that I use to post announcements on Craigslist,
and I'd like to use it in the body of an email and have it go out as an HTML
file. I sent it to myself as a test, and the message had the text
<htm>
<head>
This is the head
</head>
</html>

and when I view the source of that test mesage, this is the source:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.3354" name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY>
<DIV><FONT size=2>
<P>&lt;html&gt;</P>
<P>&lt;head&gt;</P>
<P>This is the head</P>
<P>&lt;/head&gt;&lt;/html&gt;</P></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>

No. I just want the message to say
This is the head.


So, how do I get send a message so that it gets transmitted as HTML, not
text?

I've tried various combinations of default message formats in the Options
dialog box, but none of them seem to matter. Is it somewhere else?
 
Diane said:
you can also open it in IE and copy and paste the page into the email
message.
Click to expand...

I wasn't aware that Outlook had a source or direct HTML edit mode?
Pasting HTML code (which is just text) into an e-mail message might
still not get the wanted result. Wouldn't it be more correct to edit
the .html file until it looks how you want in a web browser and then use
that web browser's Send Page By E-mail function? Of course, not
everything you can display in a web browser will be properly displayed
within an e-mail client that support HTML formatted e-mails. E-mail
clients are not web browsers and, for example, the default Restricted
Sites security zone used by Outlook will not run scripts, AX controls,
etc.
 
Have you tried it? Yes, using send by email will work too but you can copy
any rendered HTML (as you see when you open the page in IE) and paste it
into an email message (must be HTML format naturally). I've never had it
convert to the raw HTML code.

I never said outlook has a HTML source editor (because it doesn't) but that
doesn't mean you can't paste rendered HTML into the message body.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





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