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HTML Email Template Generator

Generate a responsive, email-client-safe HTML template (table-based layout with inline styles) from a header, body copy, a call-to-action button, a footer and brand colours. Copy the ready-to-send HTML or preview it live.

Input

Used for the email <title> tag.

Hidden preview snippet most inboxes show next to the subject line.

Each blank line starts a new paragraph; single line breaks become <br>.

Leave blank to omit the call-to-action button.

Used for the header text and the button.

Output

Your email preview will appear here.

Email HTML

Table-based layout with inline styles — paste into your email service provider.

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Guides

Build a responsive, ready-to-send HTML email in seconds. Fill in a header, some body copy, a call-to-action button, a footer and your brand colours, and the tool generates clean, table-based HTML with inline styles that renders reliably across Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail, Yahoo and the rest — then copy it or download it as an .html file.

Why email HTML is different from web HTML

The HTML you write for a website does not work in an inbox. Email clients are years behind browsers and wildly inconsistent: Outlook on Windows renders messages with Microsoft Word's layout engine, Gmail strips out <style> blocks and external stylesheets, and almost none of them support flexbox, grid, or modern CSS positioning. Code that looks perfect in Chrome can collapse into a broken mess in an inbox.

Email developers work around this with a deliberately old-fashioned approach, which this generator follows:

  • Table-based layout. Structure is built from nested <table> elements rather than <div> + flexbox, because tables are the one layout primitive every client understands.
  • Inline styles only. Every style lives in a style="" attribute directly on the element. There is no <style> block to be stripped.
  • width attributes. The main container uses width="600" — a safe, widely-used content width — as an HTML attribute, because Outlook honours the attribute even when it ignores the CSS.
  • A proper document shell. An <!DOCTYPE html> wrapper, a <title>, and a hidden preheader <div> (the short preview line most inboxes show next to the subject) are all included.

How to use it

  1. Enter a subject line (used for the <title>) and a preheader.
  2. Type your header/logo text and body content. Leave a blank line between paragraphs — each becomes its own <p>; single line breaks become <br>.
  3. Add a button label and URL for your call to action (leave the label blank to omit the button).
  4. Pick a brand colour (header text and button) and a background colour.
  5. Watch the live preview update, then copy the HTML or download email-template.html.

Everything runs in your browser — nothing you type is sent to a server.

Can I paste this into Mailchimp or another ESP?

Yes. The output is standard, self-contained HTML. Most email service providers have a "paste your own code" or "import HTML" option — drop the generated markup in there.

Are my inputs safe?

All text you enter is HTML-escaped before it is placed into the template, so characters like <, >, & and quotes render as literal text instead of breaking the markup.

Does it work in Outlook?

Yes. The table layout, inline styles and width attributes are exactly the techniques used to keep messages intact in Outlook's Word-based renderer.

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Use it from code

From 3 credits per call

REST API

curl -X POST https://api.iotools.cloud/v1/tool/html-email-template-generator \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "subject": "Welcome to Acme",
    "preheader": "Everything you need to get started.",
    "headerText": "Acme",
    "bodyContent": "Hi there,\n\nThanks for signing up. Your account i…",
    "buttonText": "Get Started",
    "buttonUrl": "https://example.com/start",
    "footerText": "You received this email because you signed up at…",
    "brandColor": "#464aff",
    "bgColor": "#f4f4f7"
  }'

Swap in your own key from your account. The tool's fields are the body — no wrapper.

Ask an AI agent

Use the IOTools `html-email-template-generator` tool (HTML Email Template Generator) on this input:

YOUR_INPUT_HERE

Paste this at any agent connected to the IOTools MCP server, then add your input.

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