You can include tables, colors, and so forth in your emails if you use HTML mode. To switch to this mode, simply click "Edit as Html" on the Compose screen. After a few seconds, you will see buttons appear for adding formatting to your email (as long as you are using a recent version of Internet Explorer, Netscape, or Firefox). If you always want to send email in this mode, click Options, then Account Preferences, and set Default compose mode to "HTML".
The 'Preview' button on the compose screen takes you to a screen where you can see the body of your message rendered in a browser window. This is useful if you have edited your HTML by hand. It can also be helpful if you just want to see what your message will look like using your current stylesheet.
The 'Preview' button is not visible when editing a message in Text mode; it is only displayed when you are editing an HTML message.
In Mozilla, Netscape and Firefox, scripts are not allowed to access the clipboard by default to stop malicious sites from stealing your data. To enable the cut/copy/paste buttons in the HTML compose screen follow these steps (please note this only allows FastMail.FM to access the clipboard so your security is not compromised):
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Download this file.
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Place this file in your profile directory. See below for instructions on how to find your profile directory.
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Restart your browser and the buttons should now work.
Advanced users: If you already have a user.js file in your profile folder, simply download the file above, open it in a text editor and append the contents to your current user.js
How to find your profile folder:
On Windows XP/2000:
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Open a new Windows Explorer window (double click My Computer).
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Type %AppData% into the address bar and hit enter.
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Open the folder for your browser. If you are using Netscape, open the folder called Netscape. If you are using Mozilla open the folder called Mozilla etc. Users of old versions of Firefox (when it was still called Firebird) need to open the folder called Phoenix.
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Now navigate through the following folders: Profiles->default->xxxxxxxx.slt, where xxxxxxxx is a random string of 8 characters.
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The folder called xxxxxxxx.slt is your profile folder.
On Windows 95/98/Me:
Open C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\<Browser name=""> \Profiles\default\xxxxxxxx.slt\, where xxxxxxxx is a random string of 8 characters and <Browser name=""> is the name of your browser. e.g. For Mozilla the location would be C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\default\xxxxxxxx.slt\
The folder called xxxxxxxx.slt is your profile folder.
On Linux:
Open ~/.<Browser name=""> /default/xxxxxxxx.slt, where xxxxxxxx is a random string of 8 characters and <Browser name=""> is the name of your browser. e.g. For Mozilla the location would be ~/.mozilla/default/xxxxxxxx.slt
The folder called xxxxxxxx.slt is your profile folder.
On MacOS X:
Open ~/Library/<Browser name=""> /Profiles/default/xxxxxxxx.slt, where xxxxxxxx is a random string of 8 characters and <Browser name=""> is the name of your browser. e.g. For Mozilla the location would be ~/.mozilla/default/xxxxxxxx.slt
The folder called xxxxxxxx.slt is your profile folder.
The 'Format' action automatically fixes up all kinds of formatting, for instance word wrapping and bullet list wrapping. If you have lines that you don't want to format, precede them with a '# '.