# How to return HTML from a Netlify function
> Learn how to return HTML from a Netlify function by setting the Content-type header to text/html instead of returning plain text in the response body.
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Instead of
```javascript
return {
statusCode: 200,
body: 'Test',
}
```
Use
```javascript
return {
statusCode: 200,
headers: {
'Content-type': 'text/html; charset=UTF-8',
},
body: 'Test
',
}
```