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HTML Signature in 5.0 not working

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pjweimer

pjweimer

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Dec 12, 2001
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I am an avid user of Lotus Notes 5.0, and recently changed jobs. When I tried to apply the HTML signature file that I had had stored in my data folder, something went wrong. I chose html vs. text for my signature, browsed, and located the file containing my blue signature. When I then created a new email (since I had selected for my signature to appear on all new emails) the spacing got thrown off. So instead of looking pretty and professional as it does when I view it in IE and Word, it looks too "spread out".

Any suggestions? Thanks.

P.J. Weimer
 
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If you don't already have one set up, I would suggest creating a table around your signature and setting the width of the table to the percentage you want the signature to occupy
In the <body> area of the file.
<table width=??%>
<td>
<tr>
your html info
</td>
</tr>
<table>
</body>


Mike

 
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I'm working with PJ on her signature, and I had included a table declaration with an explicit width. I added in the body tags, and that didn't work. I the added in the html tag around the body, but to no avail. The HTML still seems to be stripped out of the message. The sig is formatted like this:

<html>
<body>
<table width=&quot;350&quot;>
<tr>
<td>Foo</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
 
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I'm at a loss. I used your HTML in my signature and it worked the way it's supposed to work.

I looked in the User Preference section. In the Mail Area For the the Internet Mail section, Is HTML showing? It didn't change anything when I chose only Plain Text, but you never know. (I have no idea if this may help, but I figured I'd mention it anyway)

Mike

 
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Yup. I chose text and HTML in the Internet Mail Section. I wonder what the problem is? Any thoughts about who I could try contacting next? Thanks. P.J. Weimer
301-657-7234
 
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What's your text alignment? Spreading out is usually caused by 'Justify' and your default alignment will also effect your html unless you override with the align tags. Spreading out can also be caused by font selection and /or Kerning, but if they were the cause you'd probably know it as you would have had to set them.
 
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Do you mean what is my text alignment in Lotus in general or for the html file? Kohr-Ah wrote the html file, and I'm clueless in that area. :( But I have not changed the default alignment in notes. At least I don't think so...I know where to find the default font, but I can't find a specific area for default alignment.

I'm very concerned now since the html signature works in your Notes, and won't work in mine. This is frustrating.

Thanks. P.J. Weimer
301-657-7234
 
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Actually it's mbarron that could use your html. I use notes 4 and can't do sig's in the manner in which we are discussing. I was responding to the spread out description in your original post, since it doesn't seem to be an HTML issue. Kohr-ah's code looks fine to me.

Yes I did mean the alignment in Notes since Kohr-Ah's code doesn not contain any align tabs it will pick up your notes alignment. If you haven't changed it in Notes that probably isn't the issue either.

Have you tried sending this file to others both in your notes domain and outside of it? It may only look bad in your workspace.
 
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PJ and I were able to get the issue resolved. The problem was in part communication. I was receiving her e-mails sent across the net to my exchange server, and the HTML was stripped out. On her end, it simply ended up being a nested table that was throwing off the spacing (not sure why, border was off, and cellspacing/padding were set to 0). Anyway, thanks for the help guys!
 
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