Place Gmail HTML Signature Above Reply (Bookmarklet Method)

UPDATE: The script referred too below, email signature generator has been updated. You may now choose to place your signature above the reply, and you may also add their bookmarklet directly to your Chrome bookmarks bar.

After I finished writing my previous post on HTML signatures I went to reply to an email and realized the email signature was being placed at the very end of the quoted email. I personally can’t stand this and have always preferred to have my email signature appear directly after my reply, not at the bottom of the email. After spending a little time looking at the javascript produced by the GeekFG bookmarklet generator, I found a way to make the email signature appear above the quoted email and after my reply text.

NOTE: This post deals with placing an HTML signature above your reply in Gmail. Please read HTML Email Signature in Gmail Using Google Chrome before proceeding.

Step 1

Go back to the HTML that you created originally for the bookmarklet generator and place two <br/> tags at the very start of your HTML. This is going to provide space at the top to allow you to write your email.

Step 2

Follow steps 2 and 3 from my previous post.

Step 3

Take the javascript code that you copied in step 3 of the previous post and place it in a note pad (or any HTML editor). Perform a search for:

append%

You are going to change that section to:

prepend%

Step 4

Using the modified javascript code, create the bookmarklet like I did in Step 4 of the previous post.

Step 5

Navigate over to Gmail and try replying to a message. Before you begin writing your reply, click the button that you just created. This will place the email signature above the quoted email text. Because of the break tags that you placed at the start of your HTML block, you should have enough space to begin writing your reply above your signature.

If you followed all of my steps correctly, you now have an HTML email signature that appears above quoted text in Gmail, and all of this using Google Chrome!

Thanks to GeekFG for updating the editor to support Chrome users, and thanks for the shout out on your website

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