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using mail, edditing a long email, evrything was converted to this <div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;c

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I was adding to an Email, Gmail in standard format when without notice, all was changed to something like THIS:
I was adding to an Email, Gmail in standard format when without notice, all was changed to something like THIS:<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color: How do convert back to the Original text , normal , Content ? I am using Windows 10

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HISY30B said

I was adding to an Email, Gmail in standard format when without notice, all was changed to something like THIS:

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Sounds that an HTML email got changed to a text only email causing the HTML markup to appear as plain text. I'm not sure what the correct way would be to reverse this. You can save this text to an .html file and open this file in a Firefox tab.