How To Add A HTML Signature To Gmail

Tony Williams | Feb 13, 2007 | Comments

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Gmail is slowly eating away at the dominance of Yahoo! and MSN Hotmail in the wemail space, as in my view it’s brought a fresh approach to using email.

One of it’s major limitations was however it’s inability to add a HTML signature to emails. As always, some enterprising person who hasn’t seen daylight in months has come up with a solution to this problem whihch is very simple to implement.

If you’re a Gmail user all you have to do is the following:

  1. Download and install Greasemonkey if you don’t already have it.
  2. Install the script
  3. You’ll need to have the HTML code for the signature that you want to insert. Once you have that just go to the Greasemonkey script manager and edit the script’s HTML signature to whatever you want.

Viola – you have one tricked out signature ready to go! Thanks to Ryan for showing me the way to this great tip.

If you haven’t switched to Gmail yet, why not? It just gets better and better each month.


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  • I couldn't find a script that also inserted HTML signatures in replies, so I've made a modification to the script so that signatures are inserted in replies. That script can be found at:

    http://www.opensourceopportunities.com/htmlrepl...

    James
  • Thanks James - I'll give that a try later on today
  • You're welcome. The next step is to figure out how to get this Greasemonkey hack to work without requiring that the image remain on the server. I found out that the image will disappear from any emails if the url is changed.

    The Dive Into Greeasemonkey online book described a solution where an image can be embedded as a data url. There is also a website The data kitchen, where an image can be uploaded and converted into an encoded url.

    One of the challenges with the url was with single quotes. This made it hard to insert the image data url into a JavaScript file. My guess is that escaping the quotes will fic the problem, but I've been busy with other things at the moment. If anyone can get it figured out, let me know.

    Also, another potential challenge is this: data url's are specific to Mozilla, so I don't know for sure what the image will look like if viewed in a non-Mozilla email client or browser, such as Microsoft Outlook or Internet Explorer.

    Thanks,
    James Mortensen
  • Theresa Dano
    what's the tag for an image to disappear? or what tag is used to insert a close button in HTML


    pls help
  • Suvrajit
    Hi,
    I have tried both the scripts the first one and also the "reply" one. But I didn't found any thing added in my signature.
    I have Greasemonkey installed with Firefox. But it seems none of those are working. I just want to show an image along with my signature, now I know nothing about Greasemonkey and all those stuffs, so will please anyone help me out ???
  • madhan
    Hi.
    I have my image in this location.
    http://m1.freeshare.us/152fs819134.png
    can anyone write html code.
  • Gee, did you find this amazing tip here:

    http://groups.google.com/group/To-GRF/web/html-...
  • @meat

    No. Why?
  • There is a bookmarklet HTML creator in order to add HTML signature to Gmail.
  • Check out this Firefox add-on that allows you to easily maintain up to four separate rich HTML signatures for each email address you have set up in your Gmail account. (replaces old Greasemonkey script)

    http://blankcanvasweb.com/pages/detail/id_9/n_g...
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