Answers.Body: <p>These emails have always been plain text. You'll need to install a module if you want them to be html. See e.g. <a href="https://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/270894/how-to-send-the-emails-related-to-the-user-account-in-html">https://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/270894/how-to-send-the-emails-related-to-the-user-account-in-html</a></p>
  
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Body: <p>I'm working on the activation email that gets sent out when you approve an account in Drupal, does anyone know how to format text in it? Specifically, I'd like to make some font bold.</p>
  <p>I've tried  and , as well as **. Strangely enough both  and  showed up as single asterisk (*) in the email that was sent out.</p>
  <p>Here's the back-end:</p>
  <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/9bJOh9KNm.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/9bJOh9KNm.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>
  <p>And here's what gets sent out:</p>
  <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/wijEEOPYm.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/wijEEOPYm.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>
  <p>I thought there might be a setting that needs to be changed in Config - Content Authoring - CKEditor or Text formats, but couldn't find anything that jumped out at me, besides unchecking &quot;Limit allowed HTML tags&quot; in Filtered HTML.</p>
  
Tags: <drupal><email><html>
Title: How to format text in Drupal - Account Settings?
ThreadText: # How to format text in Drupal - Account Settings?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2024-07-26)
  
  I'm working on the activation email that gets sent out when you approve an account in Drupal, does anyone know how to format text in it? Specifically, I'd like to make some font bold.
  
  I've tried and , as well as \*\*. Strangely enough both and showed up as single asterisk (\*) in the email that was sent out.
  
  Here's the back-end:
  
  [![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/9bJOh9KNm.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/9bJOh9KNm.png)
  
  And here's what gets sent out:
  
  [![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/wijEEOPYm.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/wijEEOPYm.png)
  
  I thought there might be a setting that needs to be changed in Config - Content Authoring - CKEditor or Text formats, but couldn't find anything that jumped out at me, besides unchecking "Limit allowed HTML tags" in Filtered HTML.
  
  **Tags:** drupal, email, html
  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2024-07-26. Score: 1 | Accepted answer
  
  These emails have always been plain text. You'll need to install a module if you want them to be html. See e.g. <https://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/270894/how-to-send-the-emails-related-to-the-user-account-in-html>
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Thank you, great to know!  
  
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