Copy and Paste formatting

Hello, I am running into problems copying and pasting HTML information from my e-mails. I run a real estate website, and on a Windows, it was easy to just copy and paste a listing that was e-mailed to me, and the formatting and pictures would be preserved in the same formatting. I am wondering if there is a way to do this on a Mac, because as of now when I paste, it simply pastes the text unformatted, and without a picture. Is there a workaround? I am using Mail and Dreamweaver 8.
Thanks
Ryan

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
Unfortunately mail HTML formatting is different for every e-mail client. Your best bet is to get some web space and put up the HTML files you want on a website, and just point a link to your clients to visit that website.
Just be sure to follow http://www.w3.org/ standards, and use known coding techniques for making the HTML viewable in any web browser, such as those outlined by http://www.anybrowser.org/

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