====== Forcing Gmail to send email with zero margins ======

By default, it is not possible to send email with content as backgrounds or images taking up the whole width of email space. However, it is possible to do so with the following little trick.

This comes in handy when you want to resend e.g. nicely-formatted Mailchimp e-mail and still retain its full-width layout (recall those wonderful header and footer images with no right- and left- margins!).

===== Solution =====

The procedure consist in directly altering e-mail HTML code before sending it. To do so, you need some browser extension that will allow you to do this. The add-on I used was [[https://support.cloudhq.net/how-to-use-html-editor-for-gmail/|cloudHQ's Free HTML Editor for Gmail]]. So:

  - Install [[https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/free-html-editor-for-gmai/ioinaaeeacahcmbgfmeaaofhfkijpdeb|Free HTML Editor for Gmail]] Chrome extension
  - Open the e-mail draft you want to edit.
  - Click ''Edit as HTML'' icon added by the extension
  - On the top of the email, write:<code>
<style>
  body, #bodyTable, #bodyCell {
    height:100%;
    margin:0;
    padding:0;
    width:100%;
  }
  :root {
    color-scheme: light only;
  }
</style>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" class="">
<meta name="color-scheme" content="light only">
</code>
    - The ''<style>''-tag first part will remove the borders for desktop clients.
    - The ''viewport'' meta tag will achieve the same on mobile devices. You may eventually remove the ''#bodyTable'' and ''#bodyCell'' selectors if they are not present in e-mail source code (Mailchimp usually uses them in its e-mails).
    - The last part with ''color-scheme'' is there to prevent the email from getting different colors in iOS/macOS Dark mode (for more info, see [[https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58177703/how-to-prevent-ios-13-dark-mode-from-breaking-emails|this thread]] on StackOverflow and also [[https://webkit.org/blog/8840/dark-mode-support-in-webkit/|this article]].)
  - Click ''Save and Close'' and you are done!


===== Tip =====

To send the same e-mail you received (for example, the test Mailchimp mail you have sent to yourself), you can move it from Inbox to Drafts in native macOS Mail application by simply dragging it from one folder to another (or hold Alt key while dragging to copy it).


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