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Paste and Clean Up HTML

Bring in existing HTML — from a designer, an agency, or another tool — and tidy it so your Edition renders reliably across the many email clients your subscribers use.

Before you begin​

  • Have the source HTML ready as a single self-contained file or snippet. Inline any external stylesheets you can, since many email clients ignore <style> blocks and almost all ignore linked CSS.
  • Host images on a public URL and reference them with absolute links (https://…). Attached or relative image paths will not display.
  • Know that email clients support a limited subset of HTML/CSS. Table-based layouts and inline styles render far more predictably than <div> grids or modern CSS.
  • Open the Edition where you want the content, and locate the raw-HTML or source view. (confirm the exact steps in your account)

Steps​

  1. Open your Edition and switch to the HTML/source view for the block or full body you want to replace.
  2. Paste your source HTML into the source view and save.
  3. Switch back to the visual editor and preview. Look for broken layout, missing images, or dropped styling.
  4. Clean up common problems: move critical CSS inline, convert layout to nested tables, set explicit image width/height and alt text, and remove scripts, forms, and unsupported tags.
  5. Replace any hard-coded personal details with personalization tokens so each subscriber sees their own values.
  6. Send yourself a test Broadcast and check rendering on desktop, mobile, and at least one webmail client before sending for real.

Result​

Your Edition displays the imported design correctly in the preview and in test messages, with images loading and layout holding together across the email clients you tested.

Canonical terms: Author, Edition, Folder (Project Folder), Broadcast. See the Glossary.