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**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\
**Created:** [February 20, 2018, 2:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/html-email-rendering-issue/120549 "2018-02-20T02:37:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 1
**Author:**  [@Karthik\_Ramachandran](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Karthik_Ramachandran)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 2:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/html-email-rendering-issue/120549/1 "2018-02-20T02:37:19Z")
I belive the html sanitization comes into effect, but not sure
I'm using below output syntax to the eMail action
{{#ishighuse}} \{{jvminuse}} {{/ishighuse}}
bgcolor setting is not set and always get
28 (28 is a sample value)
If it sanitization issue, what are the elements that sanitization excludes, and how I can set specific elements to be allowed? (or) please advice if I'm missing something
NOTE 1 : cellpadding, cellspacing , border are allowed at TABLE element level
NOTE 2 : Validated that "ishighuse" is true and ensure that the logic passes thru the condition with temporary values.
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**Author:**  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 8:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/html-email-rendering-issue/120549/2 "2018-02-20T08:11:46Z")
Hey,
can you try to enable `_styles` for the HTML sanitizer, and use ` | ` and see if that works?
See [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/6.2/actions-email.html#email-html-sanitization](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/6.2/actions-email.html#email-html-sanitization) and [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.2/notification-settings.html#html-feature-groups](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.2/notification-settings.html#html-feature-groups)
--Alex
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**Author:**  [@Karthik\_Ramachandran](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Karthik_Ramachandran)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 6:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/html-email-rendering-issue/120549/3 "2018-02-20T18:48:50Z")
Hi Alexander,
Adding the below entry alone didn't work
xpack.notification.email.html.sanitization:
allow: \_styles
But, when I added below, it worked
xpack.notification.email.html.sanitization:
allow: \_styles,\_tables,\_blocks,\_links,\_formatting
NOTE: \_blocks,\_links may not be required
Probably I'm misinterpreting documentation. I didn't explicitly added \_tables etc. initially as the documentation specified "By default, Watcher allows the following features: body, head, \_tables, \_links, \_blocks, \_formatting and img:embedded" -- [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/6.2/actions-email.html#email-html-sanitization](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/6.2/actions-email.html#email-html-sanitization)
Thanks for your help.
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**Author:**  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 8:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/html-email-rendering-issue/120549/4 "2018-02-21T08:07:52Z")
Hey,
the option requires you to set all the allowed options at once, so it makes sense that your second try worked, not your first.
Hope that helps!
--Alex
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**Author:**  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2018, 8:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/html-email-rendering-issue/120549/5 "2018-03-21T08:07:55Z")
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