Format the email under Create HTML Table

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Hi Guys,

I have used the Create HTML table action and send email action in my flow but the columns and data under columns are not properly aligned in the emails.

How can I display the output in proper way?

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eliotcole 4,363 Moderator on at

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Hiya, @RajSingh, nice to see you back again!

Could you please perhaps update the question with an image of what it does look like when it sends?

It would be very odd for any component to adjust the spacing of a table.

Off the bat, I have a couple of pieces of advice that might help you, though.

Enter Code

First piece of advice is to add the table in the 'code' view of the email action.

So, within the 'Send an email (v2)' action:

Tap the '</>' button

Delete *everything* currently there

Pick the table output

Now you can test it to see if it looks OK! 👍

Adjust The CSS

This would require you doing the former, first.

If you are aware of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), you can use a fair amount of CSS styles (do a StartPage search for what is allowed in Outlook) to adjust the <TABLE>, <TH>, <TR>, <TD>, and more, entity tags in the HTML before the output of the table.

You would simply have something in there like the following to make all tables 100% width of the parent tag that they are inside:

<STYLE> table { width: 100%; } </STYLE> @{outputs('Create_HTML_table')}

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Try adding a <style> tag and use CSS to style your table/header/rows to your body (or using compose outputs)

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Yeah, that's the second thing I was thinking, @royg ... but I think that they need to first get the table added in the 'code' view ( without all the added <p> tags it adds 😏 ) ... otherwise any styling is just going to appear as text.

Try adding a <style> tag and use CSS to style your table/header/rows to your body (or using compose outputs)

I am hopeful that it won't need the styling, though, if the table is added there. 👍

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Thanks Guys, The style tag worked to align columns but how can I align the first column heading to left and also reduce the width of first column? Please see below the current output:

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@RajSingh ... I think you need to start poking through the W3 Schools site.

CSS Tutorials

They have a lot of helpful tools on how to do this, specifically in the table section, here.

Did you switch to '</>' code view? I'm assuming that you did.

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Also worth mentioning, not all styles apply - for example the alternate row colors cannot be applied with CSS.

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RajSingh 176 on at

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Thanks Guys - My table looks much better now using CSS .

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eliotcole 4,363 Moderator on at

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Glad you're sorted, @RajSingh !!

I hope that you do not mind but I added the more 'in depth' solution to the answers so that if someone comes here with the same issue they will have more assistance. 👍

Yeah, @royg, that's why I mentioned to do a StartPage search on allowed styles for Outlook. 👍

@royg wrote:

Also worth mentioning, not all styles apply - for example the alternate row colors cannot be applied with CSS.

Here's my quote:

you can use a fair amount of CSS styles (do a StartPage search for what is allowed in Outlook)

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