{"id":2204,"date":"2026-11-10T13:26:03","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T12:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mailfino.com\/?p=2204"},"modified":"2026-11-10T13:54:21","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T12:54:21","slug":"newsletter-html-und-textversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mailfino.com\/en\/newsletter-html-und-textversion\/","title":{"rendered":"What are HTML and plain-text versions of a newsletter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A newsletter can include an HTML version with a layout, images, and styled links as well as a plain-text version. When both are included as alternatives in the same message, the email client can choose the version that suits the current view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mailfino.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/mailfino-glossar-html-textversion-v1.webp\" alt=\"A designed newsletter beside its plain-text version.\" class=\"wp-image-2194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mailfino.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/mailfino-glossar-html-textversion-v1.webp 1200w, https:\/\/www.mailfino.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/mailfino-glossar-html-textversion-v1-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.mailfino.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/mailfino-glossar-html-textversion-v1-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.mailfino.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/mailfino-glossar-html-textversion-v1-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.mailfino.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/mailfino-glossar-html-textversion-v1-18x12.webp 18w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What belongs in the plain-text version?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keep the essential information in the same order. Present important links clearly and check whether the next action makes sense without images. A plain-text version is especially useful when the email client does not use an HTML view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Example of an invitation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The HTML version contains a registration button. In the plain-text version, the date, location, and registration URL appear as readable text. In mailfino, you can check the text view alongside desktop and mobile views before sending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Further reading<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfc-editor.org\/rfc\/rfc2046.html#section-5.1.4\" rel=\"noopener\">RFC 2046 on alternative MIME parts<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"\/en\/newsletter-editor\/\">Newsletter editor and preview<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"\/en\/newsletter-webversion\/\">What is a newsletter\u2019s web version?<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"\/en\/alternativtext-im-newsletter\/\">What is alt text in a newsletter?<\/a><\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"\/en\/glossar\/\">Back to the email marketing glossary<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ein Newsletter kann eine HTML-Version mit Layout, Bildern und gestalteten Links sowie eine reine Textversion enthalten. Sind beide als Alternativen in derselben Nachricht enthalten, kann das Mailprogramm eine f\u00fcr die jeweilige Ansicht geeignete Fassung w\u00e4hlen. Was geh\u00f6rt in die Textversion? \u00dcbernehmen Sie die wesentlichen Informationen in derselben Reihenfolge. F\u00fchren Sie wichtige Links lesbar auf und [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mailfino.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mailfino.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mailfino.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mailfino.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mailfino.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mailfino.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2248,"href":"https:\/\/www.mailfino.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions\/2248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mailfino.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mailfino.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mailfino.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mailfino.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}