Do Gmail recipients see purple text?

If your text appears purple in Compose, your recipient will also see it as purple. In this situation, be sure to highlight the text and use the Tx button to remove the formatting. The compose box of Gmail supports rich text, plain text and/or HTML (Copy pasted HTML, it basically becomes a reader).

What does it mean when text is purple in Gmail?

It is caused by Gmail threading styling where it highlights duplicate copy from previous emails in a thread. If you delete all previous instances of a thread and empty the bin, the purple coloured text will disappear.

Why does Gmail Show quoted text?

When you reply to a message Google Mail offsets the original text with a vertical line. This is called quoted text. You can also use the quoted text effect manually when composing a message, for example, with text pasted from another source or to place emphasis on part of your text.

How do I stop Gmail from making copied text purple?

This ‘purple text’ is caused by conversation view and has been around for sometime. If you want to get rid of the purple quoted text, turn conversation view off under settings.

What does purple text mean?

In literary criticism, purple prose is overly ornate prose text that may disrupt a narrative flow by drawing undesirable attention to its own extravagant style of writing, thereby diminishing the appreciation of the prose overall. …

Why are my text purple?

Thanks for the help! The purple colouration is a display only feature that only exists in the display where it is being seen. It is not sent in any messages and you can use Gmail’s show original feature to verify that – you will need to know a little about HTML coding.

How do I turn off quoted purple in Gmail?

How do I use quoted text in Gmail?

Reply to an email using Quotes

1. Open Gmail, and copy the part of the email you want to reply to.
2. Click Reply .
3. Click Formatting options Quotes .
4. Next to the gray bar, paste the original message text.
5. Press Enter and enter your response below the original message.
6. Click Send.

How do you insert a quote in Gmail?

To add a quote to your Gmail signature follow these steps:

1. Click the Gear icon in Gmail (top-right corner)
2. Select Settings.
3. Scroll down to Signature in the Settings tab.
4. Choose the signature to add a quote to, or create a new signature.
5. Check out our signature quotes suggestions.

Why is Instagram DM purple?

Recently many Instagram users report that why their Instagram DM color changed to blue, grey, or purple. It most probably is a test from Instagram, which is about the readability of the text. For instance, sent messages were purple, delivered DMs were blue, and read were grey.

What app uses purple messages?

Today we’re looking at Viber Messenger, the purple Messaging App from Israel.

How do I get rid of the purple text in Gmail?

If you want to get rid of the purple quoted text, turn conversation view off under settings. Our automated system analyzes replies to choose the one that’s most likely to answer the question. If it seems to be helpful, we may eventually mark it as a Recommended Answer. Helpful? Hi Aman, are those recipients who see the purple also using Gmail?

How to quote selected text in Gmail?

Go to Gmail Setting > Labs and enable “Quote Selected Text”. Save and then refresh Gmail’s window. Now, highlight the words you want to quote and then click the reply button. Only the selected words will be quoted.

Why is there a purple text in my text messages?

This ‘purple text’ is caused by conversation view and has been around for sometime. If you want to get rid of the purple quoted text, turn conversation view off under settings.

How do I get rid of the Purple quoted text?

If it seems to be helpful, we may eventually mark it as a Recommended Answer. Helpful? This ‘purple text’ is caused by conversation view and has been around for sometime. If you want to get rid of the purple quoted text, turn conversation view off under settings.