Re: [Gmail-Users] Digest for gmail-users - 4 messages in 1 topic

[Kurt Miebach]

2009/11/12 <gmail...@googlegroups.com>
> Insert line or horizontal rule into Gmail??? [4 updates]
> Bruce W <bruc...@gmail.com> Nov 11 05:22PM -0800
>
> The good folks at Google didn't see fit to give Gmail a button to
> insert a line or horizontal rule, my favorite message separator. It
> does however display lines in messages inserted by other non-Gmail
> senders.
>
> I've tried doing this with an HTML <hr> but this does not work.

Hi Bruce,

i guess the clipboard stores its content in different formats. I'd
suggest there is a text-only format and a html format, and each
application, where you put something into the clipboard decides, which
formats are filled. Maybe some programs fill different formats at the
same time. A wysiwyg editor could put a "<hr>" into the html section
of the clipboard and a "-------" into the raw text section at the same
time.

If you put a "<hr>" into the raw text section it won't help, as it has
to be on the html section when it is pasted.

This is just a guess

Kurt Miebach

[g0p4ck]

You can also insert a horizontal line into a Google Document and then paste it into a Gmail message.

It works here too:

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