# Email summary styling changed as rendered in gmail?

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**Category:** UX\
**Tags:** email\
**Created:** [January 16, 2023, 4:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-summary-styling-changed-as-rendered-in-gmail/251940 "2023-01-16T16:34:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2023, 6:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-summary-styling-changed-as-rendered-in-gmail/251940/5 "2023-01-17T18:10:30Z")

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ahhh yes 💯 — when the content is too long the message gets clipped by gmail:

 ![Screenshot 2023-01-17 at 12.56.57 PM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/c/7/9/c79ca23e412f605b291fc9cc41d344a72cb2540b.png)

In a non-clipped email there’s an empty `td` to the left and right of the `td width="650"` (the `td width="650"` contains the content, and the left/right `td`s adjust their widths to fill the remaining space equally, which centers the content)

 ![Screenshot 2023-01-17 at 1.03.37 PM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/7/e/d/7ed07a2ef4e402b3067ae84edec071518e13eccc.png)

When the email is clipped, that right `td` isn’t there:

![Screenshot 2023-01-17 at 1.03.56 PM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/5/b/d/5bd376664c9b63bc580122852b769c43b53adef3.png)

…so the left `td` adjusts to fill the available width, and pushes the content `td` all the way to the right…

I guess I can fix this by making each content block in the email center itself independently, then in the case of the email being clipped maybe only the clipped section is aligned incorrectly…

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