How to remove *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* from email title using Mailchimp and or Mandrill

Question

I have created an email template which includes merging tags on MailChimp which then gets published to Mandrill.

When my script runs and I receive email, as you can see, |MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| appears in the title.

I have searched both Mandrill and MailChimp for this tag but it is not appearing in either template file.

How do I remove this from the email?

Answer 1

I used to do this through Mandrill template editor.

Simply remove these lines which appears just after the body opening:

    <!--*|IF:MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|*-->
            <!--[if !gte mso 9]><!----><span class="mcnPreviewText"  
 style="display:none; font-size:0px; line-height:0px; max-height:0px; max-width:0px; opacity:0; overflow:hidden; visibility:hidden; mso-hide:all;">*|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|*</span>
           <!--<![endif]-->
           <!--*|END:IF|*-->

To know more about this merge tag:
https://kb.mailchimp.com/merge-tags/all-the-merge-tags-cheat-sheet

Use this merge tag to generate preview text in a custom-coded campaign. Insert |MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| just after the opening < body > tag in your HTML. To ensure the preview text isn’t visible in the body of your campaign, wrap the merge tag in a hidden < span > element.

Locate or add < style type= "text / css" > < /script > to your HTML, and add this code to the "style type" value:

After the opening < body > tag, add:

Hint: Search in the browser for this text doesn't work for some reason, search for something written in the code didn't work for me on chrome with Mandrill, so unfortunate find it by eye or copy-paste to an external editor.