transform in Gmail
Not supported transform is not supported in Gmail.
Works in 7 of 21 · partial in 1 · not supported in 13
Which clients
- Works
- Apple Mail, Apple Mail iOS, Samsung Mail, Thunderbird, HEY Mail, Proton Mail, Fastmail
- Partial
- Superhuman
- Not supported
- Gmail, Gmail Android, Gmail iOS, Outlook 365, Outlook (New), Outlook Classic, Outlook iOS, Outlook Android, Outlook for Mac, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Mail Android, Yahoo Mail iOS, AOL Mail
Your reader in Gmail sees the email without transform, even if it looks right where you tested it.
The fix for Gmail
Pre-render transformed states as images or use table layout
The engine still flags this in the fix: An image points to an address no inbox can load (rotated-content.png), so Gmail shows a broken image instead.
<!-- Pre-render rotated content as an image -->
<img src="rotated-content.png" width="200" height="200"
alt="Rotated content"
style="display: block; border: 0;" />Show the original
<div style="transform: rotate(45deg);">
Rotated content
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What Gmail does with transform
@emailens/engine 0.18.22 on the original code
Gmail does not support "transform".
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advice
Questions
- How many email clients support transform?
- It works in 7 of 21, partial in 1, not supported in 13.
- What do I use instead of transform in Gmail?
- Pre-render transformed states as images or use table layout.
- Does transform work in Gmail iOS?
- transform is not supported in Gmail iOS. Closest to Gmail: Gmail iOS, which agrees on 251 of the 300 features both are tested on.
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caniemail (MIT) via @emailens/engine 0.18.22 · tested upstream 28 Feb 2019 · data last changed 10 Nov 2026 · Outlook (New) cells are the engine's mapping