viewing htm signatures in plain text

[A Toczko]

What happens to an htm email signature when it is viewed in plain text?
Thanks.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Only the plain text representation, including any URLs, shows.

 

[Guest]

All they see is the text of the signature, minus all color, fancy fonts and
animations. It only is viewed that way if the receiver sets his email to
"view all messages in plain text."

 

[A Toczko]

Actually, I saw what happens when it is changed to plain text. I there a
way to avoid the loss of formatting? Any suggestions at all would be
appreciated.
Thanks.

What happens to an htm email signature when it is viewed in plain text?
Thanks.

 

[Vanguard]

Actually, I saw what happens when it is changed to plain text. I
there a
way to avoid the loss of formatting? Any suggestions at all would be
appreciated.

If the HTML were rendered then it wouldn't be in plain-text mode, right?
Plain-text means plain-text. All the HTML tags get stripped or removed.
The signature isn't some special lingering other e-mail or file
containing the signature but rather just another part of the body of
your message. In usenet, the sigdash ("<CRLF>-- <CRLF>") is used to
separate the signature (but is a de facto standard) whereas there isn't
even that much separation between your signature content and the body
content (i.e., it's all just the body content). Send in HTML format if
that is what you want to use.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Of course, there's an unavoidable loss of formatting. Plain text has zero
formatting. That's what plain means.

 

[A Toczko]

Thanks for your replies. I set up the html signature using tabs instead of
spaces, so that when it gets converted to plain text, although my choice of
font and graphic are lost, the spacing is acceptable, making the signature
readable.


Of course, there's an unavoidable loss of formatting. Plain text has zero
formatting. That's what plain means.