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Copying and Pasting HTML Content From Email Messages Into A New Message
I use GMail with Internet Explorer 7 on Windows Vista. Sometimes when I receive an email message formatted in HTML, I want to copy the content into a new message and clean it up or edit it a little before forwarding it. Sometimes this works flawlessly, copying the fonts, font size, font colors, and pictures. But other times it doesn't work at all. When it doesn't work, it only copies the raw text and no pictures. I have experimented with different browsers, like Firefox, and my percentage of success seems about the same: most of the time it doesn't work, but sometimes it does. And this inconsistency sometimes happens in the same surfing session!
What is the key to understanding this issue? I have seen this question explored all over the internet with no concrete answers. Some say disable browser add-ons (doesn't make any difference) or empty the cache (doesn't help either).
I really want to be able to copy and paste HTML content from an email message into a new message. What is the secret to doing this??
I will not award points unless I am able to follow your advice and find success with it. Someone just sent me a nice email of Julie Andrews and her 69th birthday. She had rewritten the words to her "These Are A Few of My Favorite Things" song and it had a nice picture of her. The font was a cursive-looking font. I am not able to copy the text (with font) and her picture into a new message. WHY? Other times, with similar emails, I AM able to. This is driving me crazy. Please, some smart person out there, explain.
What is the key to understanding this issue? I have seen this question explored all over the internet with no concrete answers. Some say disable browser add-ons (doesn't make any difference) or empty the cache (doesn't help either).
I really want to be able to copy and paste HTML content from an email message into a new message. What is the secret to doing this??
I will not award points unless I am able to follow your advice and find success with it. Someone just sent me a nice email of Julie Andrews and her 69th birthday. She had rewritten the words to her "These Are A Few of My Favorite Things" song and it had a nice picture of her. The font was a cursive-looking font. I am not able to copy the text (with font) and her picture into a new message. WHY? Other times, with similar emails, I AM able to. This is driving me crazy. Please, some smart person out there, explain.
I agree with pigmentarts.
> i am not sure if gmail has a 'show code' mode
Click on the down arrow next to "Reply" at the top-right corner of a message and then click on "Show Original". That will show you the email headers and the message body with any html tags in it.
> i am not sure if gmail has a 'show code' mode
Click on the down arrow next to "Reply" at the top-right corner of a message and then click on "Show Original". That will show you the email headers and the message body with any html tags in it.
thanks Kravimir, forgetting my gmail password i could not check that lol
one other thing to remember is that when you are pasting it into your other email client it needs to be in html view first otherwise you just paste a load of code and thats the way it will be rendered. if that makes sense?
one other thing to remember is that when you are pasting it into your other email client it needs to be in html view first otherwise you just paste a load of code and thats the way it will be rendered. if that makes sense?
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We're definitely making progress. The "Show Original" option in GMail does indeed show me the entire code from the <html> tag to the </html> tag. BUT... when I copy and paste from the beginning of html to /html into GMail, and send it to myself, then open it, it only shows code. It doesn't display it normally. I tried both Text and Rich Text modes.
Any other suggestions?
Any other suggestions?
thats goes back to my last post you have to make sure that when you re-paste the code you have to paste in the code mode so in gmail you should start a new email and view Show Original if it exists and paste in that
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No code mode? then why does it work sometimes? IT WORKS SOMETIMES.
I mean you can't edit the HTML code used in an email message directly in Gmail. It can send HTML emails though.
Why delete this? This seems to be one of the times when the answer is that "it's not exactly possible".
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I hear ya, but that's why I started out saying I would not award points if no one could show me how to do it. I would respectfully ask that you please read the last paragraph in my original post.
thank you.
thank you.
Couldn't this just be closed with points refunded? Someone else might find the information here useful.
the only way to get consistency would be to cut and paste the raw HTML code from the email. i am not sure if gmail has a 'show code' mode but this is what you need to use.