Can you send a table in an email?
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Is it possible to send a table (coded in html) as the body of an email so that the recipient is able to view the table (parsed and displayed). For example, I want to be able to send this as the body of an email: So that the recipient sees I've read in some places that it's not possible and that I must use the table creator provided by the email service, but I'd just like to confirm to see if it's possible or not.
asked May 24, 2011 at 18:38
3 You can send an email with a This is if you are building an email.
hafridi 2583 silver badges9 bronze badges answered May 24, 2011 at 18:50
breezybreezy 1,9101 gold badge17 silver badges34 bronze badges 2 This will depend on the recipient's email client. Some display in HTML, others only display plain text. answered May 24, 2011 at 18:40
DanDan 2,07720 silver badges24 bronze badges 3 You can not directly use You can also do styling like below Example answered Oct 6, 2015 at 7:12
Vijay KumbhojeVijay Kumbhoje 1,3732 gold badges24 silver badges44 bronze badges 0 You can create the table in HTML, open it up in a browser and copy & paste it into Outlook (based on the extra information you've provided in comments) Outlook will make sense of your HTML, and provide in the same format as you pasted it. If the client is using a text only e-mail (less likely nowadays - with most smartphones parsing HTML emails) then it will just appear a similar way to: Without any styling. answered Jan 22, 2013 at 10:08
Ryan McDonoughRyan McDonough 9,5463 gold badges54 silver badges76 bronze badges Some years ago I found that you can insert a table in the email body when using Thunderbird. Since then I have switched to
mutt. So, out of curiosity, I created a table in html by using latex2html on a simple latex table. I then opened the mutt editor to create an email and copied and pasted the html code into the mutt editor and closed it to go to the mutt compose menu. Before sending the email, I used So, in summary, one can paste an html table into the mutt editor (vim, in my case) and just change the content type before sending it. answered Oct 18, 2019 at 9:40
Can I paste a table in email?While it isn't possible to add tables to Gmail messages officially, there are some ways around the problem. For instance, you can use Google Sheets or Microsoft Excel to create your table, then copy and paste it into your email.
Can you insert a table in Outlook email?Insert a table. Create a new message or reply to an existing message. Insert table. Drag the pointer to choose the number of columns and rows you want in your table.
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