# RSS feed and HubL **URL:** \ **Category:** CMS Development\ **Created:** [November 16, 2016, 5:29pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/rss-feed-and-hubl/425 "2016-11-16T17:29:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![system](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/system/32/124_2.png) [@system](https://community.hubspot.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2016, 5:29pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/rss-feed-and-hubl/425/1 "2016-11-16T17:29:39Z")
Does anybody know the corred script/format is to use an RSS blog listing in an email? In the code I have " {% rss\_listing “rss\_listing” %} " but it renders strangely in the email (I can’t change the width, font colour etc). Does anyone know how I can format this? I feel like it should be like html coding, but my trial and error isn’t working. ---
**Author:** ![roisinkirby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e95f7d/32.png) [@roisinkirby](https://community.hubspot.com/u/roisinkirby)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2016, 5:48pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/rss-feed-and-hubl/425/2 "2016-11-16T17:48:36Z")
Hey @Gonzalo is this something you’ve come across before? I’ve noticed you’ve had some great contributions r.e. HubL. I’ll also follow up with designers on HubSpot’s side @Anonymous 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gonzalo](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/gonzalo/32/106671_2.png) [@Gonzalo](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Gonzalo)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2016, 8:13pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/rss-feed-and-hubl/425/3 "2016-11-16T20:13:50Z")
Hi! Thanks @roisinkirby :). I haven’t worked too much with emails but I can imagine that you can’t edit the HTML output from the RSS module. You can add custom CSS to improve the design but this isn’t the best way because a lot of email readers (gmail for example) don’t use classes, just inline-style. So my advice is to use HubL functions (instead of modules) to manage the HTML output and the CSS at the same time. For example: ```auto {% set posts = blog_recent_posts('default', 5) %} {% for post in posts %}

{{ post.name }}

{{post.summary}}

{% endfor %}
``` More documentation [here](http://designers.hubspot.com/en/docs/hubl/hubl-supported-functions#blog-recent-posts). You can insert this directly in the content block, but usually I like to have everything ordered so you can add a HubL block to your template and customize your code there 😉 I hope this could help you! 🙂 Regards, Gonzalo ---
**Author:** ![system](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/system/32/124_2.png) [@system](https://community.hubspot.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2016, 11:07am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/rss-feed-and-hubl/425/4 "2016-11-25T11:07:45Z")
Super helpful for my colleague - thank you @Gonzalo. You’ve had some great insights on this forum 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![KeithMon](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/keithmon/32/66396_2.png) [@KeithMon](https://community.hubspot.com/u/KeithMon)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2018, 8:29pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/rss-feed-and-hubl/425/5 "2018-10-11T20:29:22Z")
Hi @Gonzalo, I’m also trying to do this but I’m not getting it to work. Like aoifemoon, I also tried {% rss\_listing “rss\_listing” %}. That worked but I was unable to rearrange content how I want it. I’m trying to add an external RSS feed to a custom module so I can place it into a Drag-and-Drop email template. I’ve tried blog\_recent\_posts() using your example and it worked for Hubspot blogs but I have an external RSS feed. Do you know if this function works with external RSS feeds? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Gonzalo](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/gonzalo/32/106671_2.png) [@Gonzalo](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Gonzalo)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2018, 11:13am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/rss-feed-and-hubl/425/6 "2018-10-12T11:13:24Z")
Hey @KeithMon, I don’t think blog\_recent\_posts works with external blogs (just hubspot hosted). So the only solution I have find out and we use for our clients is use the default RSS function, and customize the external RSS with the right marktup that you want to us (because I don’t think you can edit the RSS marktup content within HubL). In my case, we have setup in our server a service where we have some posibilities to customize the RSS in may ways, then it output the right marktup for the HS RSS reader. But of course is a premium service to offer to the clients, and not all of them want it. ---
**Author:** ![KeithMon](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/keithmon/32/66396_2.png) [@KeithMon](https://community.hubspot.com/u/KeithMon)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2018, 12:18pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/rss-feed-and-hubl/425/7 "2018-10-12T12:18:09Z")
That’s what I was afraid of. Thanks for the info.