Answers.Body: <p>Insert a table with one row and one column and choose the desired width of the column when creating the table. Paste your plain text into the table - not an image with text, which will not appear correctly in some e-mail programs. </p>
  
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Answers.Text: I tried using Joe's suggestion but couldn't make it work for me. I'm a newbie at HTML so this is a challenge! Elsewhere I found:Thanks, but I didn't like how the border looked on the text box.
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Answers.Text: Sheesh please ignore previous comment, I wasn't finished editing and it timed out. I didn't like how the border looked on the text box. I tried using Joe's suggestion but couldn't make it work for me. I'm a newbie at HTML so slogging through this is a challenge! Elsewhere I found adding " !important " worked, but that moved the centered copy block to the left. Sigh. I'll probably send this out all align:left, unless anyone else has suggestions?
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Answers.Text: Can you make the border transparent?
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Answers.Text: As I mentioned - newbie here - I don't know how to make the border transparent.
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Answers.Text: To make border transparent, right click in the table, select Table Properties, set Border size to 0
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Answers.Body: <pre><code>&lt;td style="max-width:200px;"&gt; 
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  <p>is the safest way. You cannot floating text over a table background image in Outlook (which is still a huge user base). It's not difficult: it's impossible. Better to use graphic text and repeat in alt tag.</p>
  
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  Set the td tag style attribute max-width to whatever size you need is the safest way. You cannot floating text over a table background image in Outlook (which is still a huge user base). It's not difficult: it's impossible. Better to use graphic text and repeat in alt tag
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Answers.Text: I fixed by using the {} formatter to show the code
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Answers.Text: Joe - my answer, above, assumed that the 1 x 1 table,inserted below the cool flower image, would have the plain text that is below the image, not an image in the table.  Which is how I would do it. Just to clarify. I'll update my answer.
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Body: <p>I have centered text in a mailing that I'm setting up. The line length is too long for easy readability. How do I set up a maximum text width? Here's how it looks now:<a href="https://i.sstatic.net/0m2fS.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/0m2fS.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
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Title: How do I set text width in CiviMail?
ThreadText: # How do I set text width in CiviMail?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-07-12)
  
  I have centered text in a mailing that I'm setting up. The line length is too long for easy readability. How do I set up a maximum text width? Here's how it looks now:[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/0m2fS.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/0m2fS.jpg)
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2016-07-12. Score: 2
  
  Insert a table with one row and one column and choose the desired width of the column when creating the table. Paste your plain text into the table - not an image with text, which will not appear correctly in some e-mail programs.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: I tried using Joe's suggestion but couldn't make it work for me. I'm a newbie at HTML so this is a challenge! Elsewhere I found:Thanks, but I didn't like how the border looked on the text box.  
  > **username_0**: Sheesh please ignore previous comment, I wasn't finished editing and it timed out. I didn't like how the border looked on the text box. I tried using Joe's suggestion but couldn't make it work for me. I'm a newbie at HTML so slogging through this is a challenge! Elsewhere I found adding " !important " worked, but that moved the centered copy block to the left. Sigh. I'll probably send this out all align:left, unless anyone else has suggestions?  
  > **username_1**: Can you make the border transparent?  
  > **username_0**: As I mentioned - newbie here - I don't know how to make the border transparent.  
  > **username_1**: To make border transparent, right click in the table, select Table Properties, set Border size to 0  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2016-07-12. Score: 0
  
  is the safest way. You cannot floating text over a table background image in Outlook (which is still a huge user base). It's not difficult: it's impossible. Better to use graphic text and repeat in alt tag.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_2**: (the post above ate the actual HTML reference) Set the td tag style attribute max-width to whatever size you need is the safest way. You cannot floating text over a table background image in Outlook (which is still a huge user base). It's not difficult: it's impossible. Better to use graphic text and repeat in alt tag  
  > **username_3**: I fixed by using the {} formatter to show the code  
  > **username_1**: Joe - my answer, above, assumed that the 1 x 1 table,inserted below the cool flower image, would have the plain text that is below the image, not an image in the table.  Which is how I would do it. Just to clarify. I'll update my answer.  
  > **username_0**: A friend set this up for me, so I'm good for now. Thanks for participating in this adventure in HTML!  
  
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