Send Approval Email Body Formating

[ChadVKealey]

I know that Markdown can be used to apply text styles to the body of an Approval email, but there does not appear to be any way to control the alignment of text in the message. For simple approval scenarios, this isn't necessarily a problem, but we have a number of processes where the body of that email will contain a substantial amount of text (2-3 paragraphs of several sentences each). We are replacing SP2010-based Approval Task processes and found that a big hurdle was getting folks to the task to approve it. With Modern Approvals, we can include the information they need to make a decision IN the message, which is great, but having it all centered just looks odd. One of our clients actually commented: "all we need is a scrolling marquee and it's just like a geocities website from the 90s!"

So, please tell me the at there is a way to override the centered text. I'm also a little confused as to why this email uses Markdown while pretty much every other "Send Email" action allows HTML. It seems it would have been easier to just enable HTML in Approval emails. Unless the plan is to go to Markdown for other Send Email actions (which, IMO, would be a massive mistake).

[v-yamao-msft]

Hi @ChadVKealey,

Action Start an approval is currently Markdown supported. We could use Markdown syntax to add rich formatting and tables in the approval request. Please see this doc for more details:

Use Markdown in Microsoft Flow approval requests

However, it doesn’t support HTML. If you really need HTML in approval emails, please submit a request on Flow Ideas Forum so that it might be taken into consideration in the future releases.

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Flow-Ideas/idb-p/FlowIdeas

Best regards,

Mabel Mao

[ChadVKealey]

Thank you for responding but you did not actually answer the question. Is there any way to override the center-aligned text? I really only mentioned HTML in my message as a point of comparison. Alignment of text or objects in HTML is easy. Markdown does not appear to have any means of aligning anything, yet it supports bullet/number lists and tables; two types of content that look absolutely ridiculous when centered.

I have to imagine that Markdown in and of itself is not forcing things to be center aligned, but that the template (or whatever it's called) used for the Approval messages is providing that control. If this is the case, then there should be an option or property of the Approval action that lets the Flow author choose how the content is aligned.

[prashantp]

we should definitely have HTML rather than Markdown.

[Anonymous]

Trying to get approval for an HTML table but can't show what it looks like!??

Needs HTML support.