how to crop image for email template? I have an image that is of particular width (example 520px). I want to ensure that the height is never more than 150px. This is for email only... If I use max-height or just height css, then it gets pixelated? What other better option do I have?
Ideally, you would crop the image (either manually or programmatically), and have it stored somewhere (on a CDN), where you can embed the image, and it will display as intended.
If this ^ isn't an option, your limitations are based on what email clients you need to support.
I am using Campaign Monitor CSS as a reference.
Option 1: If you aren't concerned with supporting Outlook.com and/or Outlook 2007/10/13, you could set the image as a background property on an element as such:
<div style="
width: 520px;
height: 150px;
background-image: url(http://placehold.it/520x520)">
</div>
Here we are using a 520x520 (square) image, and setting the parent element to the desired size (520x150 as per your example).
Now you are faced with the issue of positioning the image background. As per the guide, if you attempt positioning, you will lose Gmail, which is probably a deal breaker. However, as an exercise, you could do this:
<div style="
width: 520px;
height: 150px;
background-image: url(http://placehold.it/520x520);
background-position: 50%;>
</div>
Now you've got an image positioned (centered), at your desired size. on an element.
Option 2: Is also limited to a specific set of clients. You could feasibly use position: relative, on the wrapper, and position: absolute, on the tag. Then use top, left properties to position.
Of course, you lose Yahoo, in addition to Outlook and Gmail.
HTML emails are tricky. I'm sure there are several other options out there. I hope this response gets you pointed in the right direction.
With various mail clients having limited support for html and CSS attributes you're going to have to have trouble achieving a cropped image affect using vanilla CSS and HTML techniques.
The following is supported by most mail clients other than Outlook and Outlook.com
<div style="
width: 520px;
height: 150px;
background-image: url(http://placehold.it/520x200.jpg)
"></div>
Unfortunately most mail clients have no support for clip, overflow:hidden or background-clip.
Even an embedded image has very little support. Send a base64 image in HTML email
The best solution would be to render a copy of the image as you need it without any CSS trickery. This is the only real solution to your problem.
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I want to use Adsense on my website for the first time, I encountered some problems in the start stages. I want to use the advertisement with the size manually written in the size space ( width:height ).
Display ads - image
Here I chose manual size for advertising link
width : 300px; | height : 250px;
Google Adsense says that fixed advertising cannot be responsive: Note that fixed-sized display ad units don’t dynamically change their size or respond to changes in screen orientation.
Finally my question, it is possible to create more ads from large to small from the beginning but with the change of the device to hide the advertising that is not adaptive
example > computer > html : <div class="div1"> </div> <div class="div2"> </div>
example > computer > css : .div1{display: block; width: 300px; height: 250px;} .div2{display:none}
And if device = tablet
CSS
#media only screen and (max-width: 425px) {
.div1 {
display: none;
}
div2 {
display: block;
width: 250px;
height: 250px;
}
}
The meaning of the post is if I can hide an ad from google adsesn on different devices.
!!!standard ad will be 300px X 250px if the device is less than 425px for the standard ad to write display none but for another ad that was hidden for the computer to write display block
Google adsense display fixed
Although there isn't a "proper" solution to this, i.e. not one that is using AdSense units the way they were intended to be used by Google, there is a practical workaround that I have been using for years on one of my sites, and that to my knowledge is in line with their policies (they have never complained to me about it.)
The workaround is to use Google's responsive ads, placing them inside divs with fixed widths but variable (unspecified) heights, and using CSS to hide the div's containing the ads if the browser width is outside a certain range. To make this work:
Make sure exactly one div displays for a particular screen width.
(Optional but recommended) set margin: auto; on each div so that it centers itself horizontally in the layout.
Set each div with a fixed width, but do not specify its height. This is because Google's responsive ads may serve ads of different heights so you must leave it flexible.
Make sure the div disappears if the screen width gets sufficiently narrow, because you don't want Google serving a fixed-width ad that is truncated because of your layout, that could violate policies.
You can then have up to three "sets" of such divs, and as long as only one div from each set is visible at a time, you will be in line with Google's 3 ad units per page limit. If a window is resized and it reaches a breakpoint in the CSS and triggers a display of a different div size, the ad will simply disappear until the page is reloaded.
How to code the media queries? I recommend only the max-width constraint...it's the property you need, you don't need to look at screen or anything else. E.g. here is some of my code:
div.container_320
{
margin: auto;
width: 320px;
display: none;
}
#media (max-width: 650px) { div.container_320 { display: block; } }
#media (max-width: 354px) { div.container_320 { display: none; } }
Then you can have:
<div class="container_320">
<! –– put adsense code here ––>
</div>
And this will achieve one of your divs. The div will appear only in a fixed range of widths; otherwise it will be hidden.
Then you need to make the others for whatever sets of different widths you want for the different max-widths of the user's browser. Put all div's of a set right after each other in the HTML. You can have as many such divs as you want, but I have found that usually having 3 is sufficient to optimize revenue while keeping the layout looking nice. Use Google Analytics or other data you have to look at the screen widths of people actually viewing your site.
You will need to adjust the dimensions and break points to fit your desired dimensions and layouts. Also, keep in mind the standard ad widths, and optimize that for your revenue. If you set the width to a non-standard size, you will find Google often serves very small ads with a lot of empty padding around them, and this is going to both look poor and forgo revenue because you're displaying in a small fraction of your available space.
We're using Umbraco v7.2.1 to serve what is supposed to be responsive content.
When you add an image from the media library to the tinymce editor, this is the html that is inserted by tinymce:
<img style="width: 500px; height:500px;"
src="/media/1007/jobs-block.jpg?width=500&height=500" alt="undefined" rel="1097" />
I really don't want ANY w x h in the tag or image src.
I have found a couple of posts regarding the tinyMce.config file and the validElements node - i removed the height and width things from the img thing in there but that had no effect.
If you open the Data Type for the Richtext editor in question there is a setting called "Maximum size for inserted images". This is by default set to 500 pixels.
If you set it to 0 it will disable any resizing.
I think you can have your cake and eat it too, no need to restrict editor re-sizing.
Adding the following properties to your img elements: max-width: 100%; height: auto !important; will allow content editors to re-size their images while also making them responsive.
I processed the output. I removed the height and wrap images by a div by javascript and I can fully customize it via css
I want to style a contact email, but I have a few problems:
I sent a test-mail to my gmx mail and it removed the style="background: url('...') center center no-repeat; position: relative;". In the received code I only see style="position: relative;"
Like the first problem, but with "background-size: cover;" and "width: calc(50% - 3px);"
My <style> - tag got commented and looks like this:
Commenting CSS like that does not prevent it working - it just ensures the browser does not treat it as HTML.
gmail strips all classes and ids from HTML, so nothing you put in your style sheet based on those will work anyway. You can style standard elements though, and inline styles still work.
Outlook doesn't support background images at all, so you should probably give up on this path.
When coding emails, i seem to be getting broken templates in the Outlook web app preview pane, however when i double click the email (email opens in new window) it renders fine.
The text within td's have alot of spacing between lines, images aren't vertical-aligning correctly amongst other issues.
Does anyone know what causes this and how it can be fixed? I did read on-line that the preview pane wraps the email in its own and adds its own styling which affects the layout?
There are a few issues it could be, but I'd start with putting this in your style tag:
#outlook a {padding:0;}
Also, are you using tables? Make sure your <td>'s at least 19px high.
For images, make sure you have display:block; and the padding and margin zero'd out.
<img alt="" src="" width="" height="" style="margin: 0; border: 0; padding: 0; display: block;">
Beyond that, post some example code as it is hard to figure out the exact cause of each issue without seeing it.
I am creating an email template which has to display images from external website. I had placed some <img> tags for rendering the images and there are some <td> tags with background-image property set in inline css of the elements.
Now, when an email is received in outlook, the images are not displayed (this is expected as the images are not embedded). And I click the download images to see the images properly. The images in <IMG> tag are only shown and the background-image for the <TD> is not rendered.
Any views on solving this problem?
Thanks!
At last I found the answer.
Outlook 2007 does not use the Internet Explorer's rendering engine for loading HTML content. Instead it uses Word 2007 HTML and CSS capabilities.
Because of this CSS attributes such as background-image is not supported. And hence it's not possible to set a background image for HTML elements in outlook using standard CSS tags.
More info is available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa338201(v=office.12).aspx
Background images are not supported in Outlook. As a best practice, you should never use background images in HTML emails. If you must have a background, you can use and image PLUS a solid color. Those with email clients that support background images will get the images, and those that don't support it will fall back to the solid color.
There is actually a method to use background images in HTML emails in Outlook.
As Chaitanya mentions it can't be done with CSS, but it can be done via VML.
The technique is a bit more involved than using background: url(....) and I don't use it as frequently as I would use the CSS technique (if it worked in Outlook). But it is very useful.
I've used it successfully on a number of campaigns.
Full instructions here: including a list of email clients that support this technique.
http://www.campaignmonitor.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=14197
Also, here's a guide from Campaign Monitor: http://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/ which proved super helpful for me.
There is a way of displaying HTML images.
Right html emails rendered as MSWord document in outlook.
I got the solution from this https://stackoverflow.com/a/12693917/413032 post.
So we need an alternate.
In fact you may open your html email in MSWORD and finding what seems wrong and considering what can be an alternate gives idea.
Here is what I did ;
Added v namespace to html tag
< html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"
Added v's style to head block
< head >
<style type="”text/css”">
v\:* { behavior: url(#default#VML); display:inline-block}
</style>
In table or where you need add your MSWord alternate
<table style="background-image: url('https://e-telesaglik.com/images/email/canvas-bg.jpg');background-repeat:no-repeat;" cellpadding="0" width="960">
<!--[if gte vml 1]>
<v:shape
stroked='f'
style='position:absolute;margin-left:-90pt;margin-top:-1.55pt;
z-index:-503306481;
visibility:visible;
width:720pt;
height:475pt;
top:0;
left:0;
border:0;
'>
<v:imagedata src="https://e-telesaglik.com/images/email/canvas-bg.jpg"/>
</v:shape>
<![endif]-->
<tbody> ....
That is all.
Sure it will be a MSWord render. And more, as you notice we use absolute positioning...
Anyway this is a workaround and solves the issue in a way.
We hope one day MS-Outlook renders html e-mails with a web browser not with MS-Word.
This works in Gmail,
I tried this to show div with image in email newsletter, try inline css, sending email guidelines here