When creating HTML emails, should we use html, head, body tags?

Question

In my email views, I usually just do something like...

   
Name
   
Value

Should

Answer 1

Depends entirely on the email client that receives it. In my experience, most email clients that will interpret HTML don't care if you have full body/head/html tags, etc. In fact you don't even need those tags for most browsers. You need to have the head tags to include style/title, etc. Otherwise they are not really necessary, per se. I've never seen them to be necessary.