Email Message formatting in Gmail -...

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My client reads the form submissions using his Gmail account on his browser (instead of a mail program like Outlook). For some reason, the column width of the first column is minimized and it ignores the 50% td width that I coded in the email message. How do I get around that? Its cumbersome to read & print out his rental applications with multiple lines of text that should be spaced out horizontally. THANKS!
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You have full control over the markup used there Lynne. Just go to the Settings > Email Notices Tab and then go into Configure Email Message.
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Thanks, Scott. I know that and that's where I'm getting into trouble. I'm going to go back to the default settings and see if that clears it up.
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After all that, I learned Gmail strips out CSS! And any styling needs to be done inline.
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Lynne Menz wrote:
After all that, I learned Gmail strips out CSS! And any styling needs to be done inline.

Gotta love html email. It's a pain.
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