# Email content max width **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-content-max-width/137069 **Category:** Support **Created:** [December 26, 2019, 6:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-content-max-width/137069 "2019-12-26T06:58:38Z") **Posts on this page:** 3 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![Bcat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/bcat/32/163148_2.png) [@Bcat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bcat) #### Post date: [December 26, 2019, 6:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-content-max-width/137069/1 "2019-12-26T06:58:38Z")
Currently emails when users text or mention other users will receive emails. Email content will display 100% of the email window. **So how to set the maximum width of emails! example 650px?** ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/a/b/abd959c7981f8763ec9baa07abdf0da9eb5f28dc.png) I tried this but it didn’t work! ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/1/e/1e427fa569e04bc7514e151c90d7bb19dbc5131e.png) ---
### Author: ![simon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/simon/32/339122_2.png) [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon) #### Post date: [December 28, 2019, 3:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-content-max-width/137069/3 "2019-12-28T03:38:04Z")
> [@Bcat](#): > > So how to set the maximum width of emails! example 650px? You can set a maximum width for emails by creating an email template that wraps the `%{email_content}` tag in a table that has its `max-width` set with CSS. If you would like to constrain the width for emails viewed on Outlook, you also need to add a table with a fixed width that is wrapped in `
Your site name
%{email_content}
``` I’ve tested this with an email testing service with most popular email clients: iPad (Retina) (iOS 13.1): ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/6/5/65c6d5490c9d0ae3d9e3562c4d1eb5358d49ab2b.jpeg) Gmail App (Android 6.0): ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/7/7/771e28424d5fa666c864cf65518e541653873340.jpeg) iPhone 6 Plus: ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/9/c/9c21972ab675dc7a641016ea14cca09211528e6c.jpeg) [Outlook.com](http://Outlook.com): ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/c/9/c953fe4eb8c067c33fe402fee30d40db4c5c6282.jpeg) ---
### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system) #### Post date: [January 27, 2020, 3:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-content-max-width/137069/4 "2020-01-27T03:38:09Z")
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