Can I use position absolute or negative margin in email template? - email

Question

Can anybody provide me with the code for this design? in the email template, I need to make this design. Text can be changed dynamically.

Answer 1

Email clients usually have poor support for properties like position or negative margin values. See:
Can I email… position
Can I email… margin
However, there’s a popular technique among email developers called “Faux absolute position”. The idea is to use max-height in a parent element to limit the space taken by children element in the flow. You can then position children element using positive margin values or text-align. You can read this article about it.
<!--[if mso]>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width:530px; background-color:#fffff5;"><tr><td>
<![endif]-->
<div style="max-width:530px; margin:auto;">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width:530px; background-color:#fffff5;">
<tr>
<td style="padding:0 20px 20px; border:1px solid #eee;">
<div style="max-height:17px;">
<div style="margin:0 20px; padding:5px 20px; background:#fc2d6a; border-radius:5px;">
<p style="margin:0; color:#fff; font:16px/1.5 sans-serif; text-align:center;">
You’ve been referred!!!
</p>
</div>
</div>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width:100%;">
<tr>
<td style="padding:20px; border:2px dashed #fc2d6a;">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
<!--[if mso]>
</td></tr></table>
<![endif]-->
This wouldn't work as it is in Outlook on Windows and you’d need to add a VML fallback version.