I have a quick question I have an HTML Signature for may emails. I need to implement them into my exchange server`s transport rules.
Unfortunately the limit is at 4096 characters and my HTML signature is 8950 Characters.
I would like to know if there is an HTML code that will access a public URL and then gets the necessary HTML content from the public URL, so that I can circumvent the limitation.
Thanks for your help
It should be normal HTML stuff i guess, Office 365 Microsoft is what I am using.
I have my company logo comming from the server, does this mean Gmail user will not be able to see my logo? I am bringing it in via a URL
every time I try to place the HTML code it shows the actual signature, any idea how i can change that?
regards
Its difficult to code for HTML emails as different email clients deal with html emails in different ways.
You could
1. Reduce spacing used in html tags, inline styling.
2. Modify markup so as to use lesser tags
Best would be to reduce the signature content, remove unnecessary parts.
In case you cant do, so you could use a image of your signature & link a image tag.[NOT RECOMMENDED] This wont work in gmail since it blocks image loading by default.
Maybe posting your signature might help?
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I've noticed that when you forward an html email from Gmail (not sure about other providers), the html structure changes in the process. The forwarded html loses all the ids declared inside the original html, also some other 'cleaning' happens on the html too.
Can anybody explain why this happens or if it's possible to avoid? Or is it totally dependent on the smtp provider?
I have an app that monitors emails on a specific inbox and tries to parses it, but as I said when the user forwards his email to this inbox (from gmail), the email html structure gets cleaned and my code can no longer parse the html because a lot of the ids are gone.
Due to this, I have to find a new way to parse what I require from the email, like using regular expressions on the plaintext section of the MIME message.
I've searched about this matter and I couldn't find any single piece of information.
Gmail strips head tag and Ids and classes on pre-processor. That means when you forward or reply, to gmail, these items never existed so are not included on reply.
As Gmail removes head tag, id, classes and more, the best way is to use inline CSS style.
Tip: An inline style loses many of the advantages of a style sheet (by mixing content with presentation). Use this method sparingly.
I'm the author of an email client and one of things I'm in the process of doing is adding support for HTML editing. The editor itself it build upon a HTML rendering control that I've written from scratch, however it supports most HTML and CSS fairly well. The issue I'm having is formatting the reply to HTML email with the user's reply template, which is also HTML (with a different style sheet). So cleanly merging two HTML documents with their own styles without either of them being messed up by the other document's styles.
When the user replies to a HTML email, I parse out the content of the tag and put it into a that forms part of the reply. That div's style shows a line down the left margin to inform the user that it's quoting the original email. Gmail does the same thing. Anyway the styles from the HTML block as saved separately and then insert into the head part of the new document.
What happens of course is that if the original email defined a style for say a link, that style affects all the links outside the original quoted area. So things like my signature at the bottom and the From/To header rendering that is part of the reply template all get that styling from the source HTML.
I'm wondering if there is an easy straight forward solution to containing all the original styles to just the quoted part of the document? Something like namespacing? Or limited scope styling?
The solution I've come to is to add all the incoming styles from the multiple documents to a global style sheet. Styles are matched by first checking the count of properties is the same, then enumerating each property and comparing it's value. This basically gives the software a minimum number of styles to correctly render the content. It could be really slow in a pathological case but so far it's working well in practice.
As an aside, recently I've noticed a lot of email clients striping all the style out of replies. Which to be honest seems like the cheap and nasty solution to the issue. Even if it does give a consistent look.
I've seen all these emails that include pictures, divs, paragraphs and what-not inside an email.
How do I actually go about doing that?
Can anyone give me a rough explanation on how these things work? I am pasting my HTML code inside my email and it only shows text. Is there anything I should enable/disable?
(I know I will need a mailing list, but that's probably a different topic.)
The body of the message should be formatted as Multipart MIME (with the email header stating that it is formatted that way) with at least two parts: A text/html part and a text/plain part (for email clients that don't support HTML and to reduce the number of This Is A Spammer flags given the email).
Most graphical email clients will only allow HTML to be entered using their WYSIWYG tools. Custom HTML requires specialist software.
I have a web admin where there is a wysiwyg editor when a user edits information.
There is also a view only template.The user views the information before clicking an edit action.
Currently the view template results in one line for the saved field value.
<p><b>Hello</b></p><p>there</p>
What options do I have to al least make the a little more readable when the user is "viewing"?
Options I can think of are:
Leave as it. Well, that can become a long line of text.
Somehow to avoid encoding of MVC3 and to add actual <br> in place of the </p> or <br> that is in the content. At least the lines will break up.
Have the content actually present as html. This is, you will see bold. What if there is an unclosed tag.
With any of the above, i may place it in a scrollable div.
(I had trouble tagging this question. Feel free to retag).
Typically when you are working with editors you are going to eventually be presenting the HTML live on the site anyway, so encoding shouldn't be a big concern as you are already trusting them.
Now, what I've done in the past is with using editors, such as ckeditor, etc, they cleanup the content which would fix the issue with your concern about unclosed tag.
so I would go with option 3 on your list.
Also ensure that any editor you support encoded data before sending to the server. Do not turn off request validation.
Use the [AllowHtml] attribute on a model property if necessary.
Also use the Anti-xss library from Microsoft - specifically the HTML sanitizer to help remove evil script and help protect against cross site scripting.
I got some auto generated HMLT code working. Made sure it is correctly parsed by http://validator.w3.org/, and it is a working HTML4.01 Strict.
Now, when I embed this code in a email and send it to gmail, the result is quite adverse (messes up the formatting).
The code is quite long, and apparently only happens when it has such size. This tells me two things:
not worth putting a code snippet here
it is probably some conflicting tag, but still considered valid the parser
Would you guys know of any tool even more strict to validate my HTML? Maybe even something specific for gmail?
Or maybe, just some pro tip on what usually screws the code for gmail.
ps.: the code, although is long, is also quite simple, only a few tables and styles - I took some care in making sure used only "email friendly" tags and formats.
Did you say styles? Oh, boy! Email clients are all doing things differently and even if you get it working for GMail, it may not work for Yahoo.
You may want to look at something like Email CSS guide to start, but really you also want to use some of the Inbox Analysis services (e.g. Inbox Inspector from MailChimp) to get a better picture.
I haven't done this myself (yet), but I have seen mentioned over and over that this is one area you can lose your hair over.
You have to code like its 1999 and not worry about being so tied to conformity to HTML.
Unfortunately valid HTML just doesn't work for some (most) email clients. Even Gmail will strip or ignore things probably for security reasons. The best bet for an email is basically HTML 3. Some inline styles for fonts. I know that <p> tags break in Gmail, and in general colspan and rowspan won't work as intended and you have to use nested tables. Those are just a few things I can think of off the top of my head.
All the answers here helped, but the actual problem was elsewhere.
The problem was In the HTML as I thought, but not exactly in my HTML.
Turns out the the email client will wrap lines too big before handling it to render, regardless if it is HTML code or whatever, more exactly, breaking tags in the middle - that explain why it was happening only when the report reached a certain length.
What tipped me that was when I looked at the code generated by MailChimp (suggested by Alexandre Rafalovitch) and noticed it was formatted as quoted-printable, cropped at exactly 75chars for every line.
After that was easy enough to do the same in my own code generator. Well, actually, I didn't even format as quoted-printable, only made sure it would wrap too long lines by itself.
Apart from that, for all I can tell, a HTML 4.01 Strict code will work pretty much fine in a Gmail client.
Hope it helps post-1999 generations.
cheers.