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How to Send a HTML Email with Gmail (Easy Step by Step Tutorial)

Yes you can send a HTML email with Gmail

Do you always need an email marketing service like Mailchimp or Active Campaign to send a HTML email? You can actually use Gmail to send HTML emails as well. You can send these HTML emails as an 1-on-1 message or use a mail merge tool for Gmail like Yet Another Mail Merge to send it to a list of customers or contacts.

Emails sent from Gmail are much more likely to reach primary inboxes than ones sent from an email marketing platform, so if you need to send a message that would benefit from some HTML design (examples: invoices, invitations, quotes, important announcements) to select groups of customers, users or contacts, you can use this method below. (Note: simply copy and pasting a HTML design into Gmail doesn't work.)

1. Copy the HTML code of the email you want to send with Gmail

2. In Gmail, click + Compose to create a new email and type 'Text' in the body

3. Highlight 'Text', right click and click on 'Inspect' in the dropdown menu

4. In the Inspect console that will pops up, right click on the highlighted blue section and select 'Edit as HTML' in the dropdown menu

5. In the textarea that appears, highlight 'Text'

6. Paste your email HTML code to replace 'Text':

7. Click anywhere outside of the textarea to apply your HTML code

8. Click 'x' at the top right corner to close Inspect console. Now you'll see your HTML email in in the compose window.

9. If needed, you can directly edit the text in the HTML email

10. Here's how your HTML email will look for the recipient. It looks the same as if you sent from an email marketing platform.

Last updated: August 3rd, 2019