How Could you Send an HTML email from Gmail or Yahoo?

Both Gmail and Yahoo Mail allow you to send out HTML emails. They also provide some simple tools to allow you to add styles to your text – like italics, colors, bolding, etc.

However, as you may have already noticed, you can not just write HTML tags into your emails and expect HTML to display.

So, how can I send out an HTML email in gmail or yahoo?

It’s actually quite simple – if you want to compose an email with your own html formatting then these are the steps you need to take:

1. Use an html editor and create the email in the editor. Then save the file with a “.html” extension.

2. Open that html file in an internet browser – Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, etc.

3. In your browser menu, go to Edit, and then “Select All” or Ctrl+A ( Command + A if you are on a Mac) to select everything that is displayed in the browser.

4. Paste (CTRL + V or Command +V) the html to the gmail or yahoo message. Then you are done! This should work like a charm.

So, the answer to this is quite simple – after you open up the contents of the html message in an internet browser, you simply select that entire page and then copy the contents into the gmail or yahoo message.

What about embedding images into my email?

The best way to embed images into an email is to first host those images on a server and then use the html you create to access those images. So, for instance, you may end up with an html tag like this:

<img src="http://www.somesite.com/images/logo.jpg">

And then you would just put that tag wherever appropriate in your email message.