Email Google Sheet cells and format - email

Question

Background: I am a teacher. I gave a test through Forms. I graded the test by using various background colors on each cell (which represented an answer to a question by a student). Each row of the sheet has their email address in Column B.
Problem: I would like to email the entire row, including formatting, to that address in Column B so that each student has a record of their answers and how I graded them.
Question: How can I email a row of data, including formatting?
I am working with the following script, which works well for emailing a single cell without formatting:
`function sendEmails() {
var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
var startRow = 2; // First row of data to process
var numRows = 1; // Number of rows to process
// Fetch the range of cells A2:B3
var dataRange = sheet.getRange(startRow, 1, numRows, 2)
// Fetch values for each row in the Range.
var data = dataRange.getValues();
for (i in data) {
var row = data[i];
var emailAddress = row[1]; // Second column
var message = row[0]; // I want the whole row, including formatting.
var subject = "Sending emails from a Spreadsheet";
MailApp.sendEmail(emailAddress, subject, message);
ContentService.createTextOutput("hello world!");
}
}`

Answer 1

Here it is.
I decided to add another function as it makes it a little cleaner. You'll be able to adjust the styles of the output by playing with the css styles. If you keep the commented lines your can use them for debugging. I tested the code with them and it looks good. So let me know how it works on the emails.
function sendEmails()
{
var br='<br />';
var sheet=SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
var dataRange=sheet.getDataRange();
var dataA=dataRange.getValues();
var backA=dataRange.getBackgrounds();
//var s='';//Please leave the commented lines. If needed for the future they are handy to have
for (var i=1;i<dataA.length;i++)
{
var emailAddress=dataA[i][1];
var message=formatRow(sheet.getName(),dataA[i],backA[i],dataA[0]);
var subject="Sending emails from a Spreadsheet";
//s+=br + '<strong>EmailAddress:</strong>' + emailAddress + br + '<strong>Subject:</strong>' + subject + br + message + '**************************************' + br;
MailApp.sendEmail({to:emailAddress,subject:subject,htmlBody:message});
}
//var userInterface=HtmlService.createHtmlOutput(s);
//SpreadsheetApp.getUi().showModelessDialog(userInterface, 'Email Message')
}
I just noticed the yellow background so I quickly added another section for it.
//assume Timestamp,EmailAddres,Score,FirstName,LastName,Section...
function formatRow(sheetName,rowA,rowbackA,titleA)
{
var br='<br />';
var ss=SpreadsheetApp.getActive();
var sh=ss.getSheetByName(sheetName);
var html='';
if(rowA && rowbackA)
{
html='';
for(var j=0;j<rowA.length;j++)
{
switch(rowbackA[j])
{
case '#ff0000':
html+=br + '<span style="font-weight:600;font-size:20px;">' + titleA[j] + ':</span>' + br + '<span style="background-color:#ff0000;">' + rowA[j] + '</span>' + br;
break;
case '#ffff00':
html+=br + '<span style="font-weight:600;font-size:20px;">' + titleA[j] + ':</span>' + br + '<span style="background-color:#ffff00;">' + rowA[j] + '</span>' + br;
break;
case '#ffffff':
html+=br + '<span style="font-weight:600;font-size:20px;">' + titleA[j] + ':</span>' + br + '<span style="background-color:#ffffff;">' + rowA[j] + '</span>' + br;
break
}
}
}
return html;
}
Just a reminder I'm using #ff0000 for red so don't change to a different shade without making a change to the code.
In the event that one student's email gets eaten by the dog, you might like to send just one email.
function sendOneEmail(firstName,lastName)
{
if(firstName && lastName)
{
var br='<br />';
var sheet=SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
var dataRange=sheet.getDataRange();
var dataA=dataRange.getValues();
var backA=dataRange.getBackgrounds();
//var s='';//Please leave the commented lines. If needed for the future they are handy to have
for (var i=1;i<dataA.length;i++)
{
if(firstName==dataA[i][3] && lastName==dataA[i][4])
{
var emailAddress=dataA[i][1];
var message=formatRow(sheet.getName(),dataA[i],backA[i],dataA[0]);
var subject="Sending emails from a Spreadsheet";
//s+=br + '<strong>EmailAddress:</strong>' + emailAddress + br + '<strong>Subject:</strong>' + subject + br + message + '**************************************' + br;
MailApp.sendEmail({to:emailAddress,subject:subject,htmlBody:message});
}
}
//var userInterface=HtmlService.createHtmlOutput(s);
//SpreadsheetApp.getUi().showModelessDialog(userInterface, 'Email Message')
}
}
Here's a birds eye view of the Spreadsheet.