{"id":101070,"date":"2019-02-26T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=101070"},"modified":"2019-03-12T23:57:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T06:57:51","slug":"20190226-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20190226-00\/?p=101070","title":{"rendered":"How to draw a nifty text box in your email message"},"content":{"rendered":"

In order to help set off content in email messages, for example, to demarcate a code snippet, I will often put it in a box. <\/p>\n

\n

… but consider the following class: <\/p>\n

class Muffin
{
public:
  void Bake();
};<\/code> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

One of my colleagues apparently was fascinated by this technique and couldn’t figure out how it was done. “Okay, I give up. How do you get the nifty text boxes in your emails?” <\/p>\n

You’re going to hate yourself when I tell you the secret. <\/p>\n

Just use this one weird trick. <\/p>\n

Tell your email program to insert a 1×1 table. Paste your text into the table. <\/p>\n

It’s that simple! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This one weird trick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-101070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-tipssupport"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

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