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'''HTML email''' is the use of a [[subset]] of [[HTML]] to provide formatting and [[semantic web|semantic]] markup capabilities in [[email]] that are not available with [[plain text]]:<ref>{{Cite web|title = Text Email vs HTML Email – The Pros and Cons {{!}} Thunder Mailer – Mass Emailing Software|url = http://www.thundermailer.com/text-email-vs-html-email-the-pros-and-cons/|website = thundermailer.com|access-date = 2016-01-30}}</ref> Text can be linked without displaying a [[URL]], or breaking long URLs into multiple pieces. Text is wrapped to fit the width of the viewing window, rather than uniformly breaking each line at 78 characters (defined in RFC 5322, which was necessary on older [[Data terminal#Text terminals|text terminals]]). It allows in-line inclusion of images, [[Table (information)|table]]s, as well as diagrams or [[mathematical formula]]e as images, which are otherwise difficult to convey (typically using [[ASCII art]]).

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== Adoption ==

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