I think that pretty much sums it up. My other thought on this is that you would think they would stop offering us the opportunity to "accept" their "solution" as helpful. But every single comment from a Constant Contact employee both offers this and "apologizes" for the inconvenience of not being able to access the code. ... View more

Yes. Those and more reasons. And as someone else said, how many comments do you need to collect about what we are all trying to do that we need html for, before you actually do something about it? ... View more

I think CC is collecting a list of things people want to do in html, I came across another one today, which is to enter a non breaking space (&nbsp . There are times you really want to keep two words together without using a hard return, which will be handled differently on different devices, browsers, monitors, etc. ... View more

I have kind of lost track of how many times I have seen this response "the html feature is a great idea"--and yet as far as I can tell when inquiring further it seems clear that Constant Contact has no intention of restoring this feature. Could the Constant Contact employees who are saying this please tell their company that they think it's a great idea? Because apparently they are not speaking for Constant Contact when they say that!   I came across another reason for needing it last night. I realize there is some thought that these drag-and-drop copy blocks are a great idea and really help people with design but there are huge problems with them. 1. you can't set the default styles for the copy blocks 2. Even if you want to use the default styles, if you try to paste copy (stripped of its coding via a text program like notepad), the text when pasted does not hold the default style that has been brought in. So you are forced to either retype text that already exists (for instance on your website) or paste it in and then restyle each individual piece of it. (WIth access to the html, at least you could switch to the html view and paste your text between the codes.) 3. You can't put a border around a block, though you CAN give it a colored background. Why did anyone think only one way of creating a "box" in your layout was sufficient? WIth html, you could switch to code view and add the style for your border if you wanted one. (I "get" that it is hard to create ready-made options for every need, but that's why we should be able to add styles in the code. I heard that the concern is that people will use coding that is not mobile friendly. Why don't you let people decide which is more important to them? We are capable or searching the web to find out whether something we are doing will work on a mobile device!) 4. I think there was a 4,5, and 6 but I have forgotten what they are at the moment. Oh, yeah, one was to be able to add space less than a full line height between paragraphs. ... View more

My point, however, was that even in the 2nd generation editor with the html coding window, I was never able to get an em dash to display. I would put the code in but it didn't work. Any of the various html codes avaialble for em dashes.   If someone did make it work in the 2nd gen editor I'd love to know how, as I have continued to use it for some of our work. ... View more

I just encountered yet another problem with not having access to html coding in the 3G editor, which is that there does not seem to be any way to have a paragraph indented, or a block that is less than the full width of the email.   I have text with a paragraph I want to indent. Maybe the <blockquote> code is not mobile friendly, I don't know, but there must be some way to do this. I tried making separate text blocks, but there seems to be no way to create a text block with padding left and right.   I hope you will find some way to implement the ability to do this. For now I guess I'll recreate the email lin the 2G editor. ... View more