Thread: What is the difference between sending e-mail messages in TEXT mode or in HTML?

What is the difference between sending e-mail messages in TEXT mode or in HTML?

E-mail can be sent in either normal text or HTML-formatted. So what exactly does that mean? Well, firstly, e-mail was based on just straight text. What you typed was what you saw. With the latest HTML-formatted e-mails, you can add pictures, hyperlinks, and other web page characteristics in your e-mails. It is like composing a web page in an e-mail message. The news is that most e-mail programs default to the plain text format if you do not contain any pictures, or other HTML elements.

To check your e-mail program's settings, make sure the Options or Preferences and look for the "Formatting" section. This must tell you how to outgoing messages are being formatted. If there is no such option, you can be quite sure that you are only sending plain text messages.