I have created a very simple html email.
http://staging.xhtml-lab.com/mailtest/
It's working fine in all email clients, except in hotmail.com/outlook.com
in hotmail email is left aligned, it should remain center aligned.
I have added following code as suggested by emailology.org, but it have no effect.
<style type=“text/css”>
/**This is to overwrite Hotmail’s Embedded CSS************/
table {border-collapse:separate;}
a, a:link, a:visited {text-decoration: none; color: #00788a}
a:hover {text-decoration: underline;}
h2,h2 a,h2 a:visited,h3,h3 a,h3 a:visited,h4,h5,h6,.t_cht {color:#000 !important}
p {margin-bottom: 0}
.ExternalClass p, .ExternalClass span, .ExternalClass font, .ExternalClass td {line-height: 100%}
/**This is to center your email in Hotmail************/
.ExternalClass {width: 100%;}
</style>
Any suggestions for what else i can do to make the email center aligned?
This should give you a centered e-mail:
<table style="width: 100%; background: red;">
<tr>
<td>
<center>
<table style="width: 640px; background: blue; margin: 0 auto; text-align: left;">
<tr>
<td>
Your content here
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</center>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
The center-tag is what is required by Outlook and outlook.com. Other clients use the margin attribute. In some clients, text is centered after the center-tag, and therefore the text-align attribute is required.
If you want the width to be variable depending on the screen size, use the following code:
<table style="width: 100%; background: red;">
<tr>
<td>
<center>
<!--[if mso]>
<table style="width: 640px;"><tr><td>
<![endif]-->
<div style="max-width: 800px; margin: 0 auto;">
<table style="background: blue; text-align: left;">
<tr>
<td>
Your content here
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</center>
<!--[if mso]>
</td></tr></table>
<![endif]-->
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Outlook does not support max-width, and therefore the size is fixed to 640px for Outlook. For all other clients, the width of the e-mail will be the same as that of the viewing window, but maximum 800px.
Please let me know if you find a client where these solutions does not work, so that we can find a solution that works with as many clients as possible.
Here is one I've built that I use as the starting point for all my emails. It works 100% on all major email clients:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><title></title></head>
<body style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px background-color: #FFFFFF;" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><!-- << bg color for forwarding (leave white) // main bg color >> --><table bgcolor="#252525" width="100%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>
<!-- CENTER FLOAT WIDTH -->
<table width="600" border="0" valign="top" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><!-- Master Width of the center panel -->
preheader...
<!-- CENTER PANEL BG COLOR (to hide separation of tables on email forward from Outlook (known issue) -->
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><tr><td><!-- Master Color of the center panel -->
content...
<!-- /CENTER BG COLOR -->
</td></tr></table>
<!-- /CENTER FLOAT WIDTH -->
</td></tr></table>
<!-- /CENTER FLOAT -->
</td></tr></table></body></html>
It has a built in white background for when someone forwards the email on (they can type on white, while the background for the html designed part remains colored). Also the main panel is set with a bgcolor because Outlook puts gaps between tables when it is forwarded.
Hope that helps.
You can also center your email template by adding align="center"to your main table tag:
<body>
<table align="center">
<tr>
<td style="width:600px;">
<!-- content -->
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
Works with GMail and Outlook
<body style="width:600px;margin: auto;">
<!-- content -->
</body>
Related
I have created a custom email template and the content is below :
...
<table id="Table_01" width="70%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style=" backgroud:red;border-collapse: collapse;border-spacing: 0;">
<tr>
<td valign="top">
<img style="display:block; border: 0px;width:100%;" src="images/01.png" alt="">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">
<table id="Table_02" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style=" border-collapse: collapse;border-spacing: 0;">
<tr>
<td>
<img style="display:block; border: 0px;width:100%;" src="images/02_01.png" alt="">
</td>
<td >
<img style="display:block; border: 0px;width:100%;" src="images/02_03.png" alt="">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">
<img style="display:block; border: 0px;width:100%;" src="images/03.png" alt="">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
...
Above code created a table with three tr and it is showing properly in desktop but in mobile devices showing some spacing.
As above image table showing red line spacing in mobile devices.
How to remove these spacing?
**It helps to include a few CSS resets in the <head> of the email.**Here are a few that I use the focus on resetting spacing and borders of <table>s and <td>s:
<head>
<style>
/* What it does: Fixes webkit padding issue. Fix for Yahoo mail table alignment bug. Applies table-layout to the first 2 tables then removes for anything nested deeper. */
table {
border-spacing: 0 !important;
border-collapse: collapse !important;
table-layout: fixed !important;
margin: 0 auto !important;
}
table table table {
table-layout: auto;
}
/* What it does: Stops Outlook from adding extra spacing to tables. */
table,
td {
mso-table-lspace: 0pt !important;
mso-table-rspace: 0pt !important;
}
</style>
</head>
Here is the full CSS reset I use for emails.
I have developed an email template. Everything is working fine in my email template except the hr tag in Outlook 2013.
I have attached images
Result which i am getting:
Result which i want:
Please help me with suitable codes.
The <hr> is inconsistently supported in email clients. It's easier to do a horizontal rule in email by using a <table> tag, something like this:
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="center" width="100%" style="background:black; height:1px;>
<tr>
<td style="font-size:0; line-height:0;">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
It might seem like a lot of code for simple <hr>, but you'll get the best email client coverage by using <table>s.
In my case, the layout showed strange horizontal lines on Outlook 2010-2019.
To avoid that, this code works for me:
<!--[if mso]>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" >
<tr width="100%">
<td width="100%" style="width: 100%; border-top: 1px solid #ffffff; padding-bottom: 1px;">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<![endif]-->
<!--[if !mso]><!-->
<hr align="left" style="border: 0px; border-top: 1px solid #ffffff; color: #ffffff; background: #ffffff; margin: 0px;"/>
<!--<![endif]-->
An alternative to using <hr> in email clients is the following, which produces a similar effect, i.e., a thin horizontal line:
<div style="background: #d9d9d9; font-size: 1px; line-height: 1px;"> </div>
This has been verified to render properly in Outlook 2016, but should also work in 2013.
Sometimes when I sent emails I receive answers stating that my email was empty. It seems very random and so far I have not been able to reconstruct this problem (have tested it on Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, ... to no avail). It seems that only my email signature and/or sometimes also just the beginning of my email is displayed.
I've checked for font problems and problems within the html code of the mail, etc.
Where should I start?
Here's some sample code of the template I use that seems to create this error at random:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>
...
</title>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<!--[if !mso]>
<!-- -->
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
<!--
<![endif]-->
<style>
html, body{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
</style>
</head>
<body style="width: 100%; margin: 0;">
<table bgcolor="#0568a6" border="0" style="background-color:#0568a6;border-collapse:collapse;border:0;margin:0;padding:0;width:100%">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="width:100%;max-width:600px;margin:0 auto">
<div style="display:block;width:98%;max-width:588px;margin:0 auto;padding:3px 1%;background-color:#0568a6">
<table bgcolor="#0568A6" align="center" style="background-color:#0568a6;border-collapse: collapse;border:0;margin:0;padding:0;width:100%">
<!--[if mso]>
<table align="center" bgcolor="#0568A6" width="588" style="background-color:#0568a6;border-collapse:collapse;border:0;margin:0;padding:0;width:588px">
<![endif]-->
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="display:block;width:100%;max-width:588px;margin:0 auto;padding:0;background-color:#0568a6">
<img src="logo.jpg" alt="Logo" width="125" height="26" border="0" align="right" style="float: right;border:0px !important" />
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<!--[if mso]>
</table>
<![endif]-->
</table>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table style="width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse;" align="center" border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="display: block; max-width: 600px; margin: 0 auto; clear: both;">
<div style="display: block; width:98%; max-width: 588px; margin: 0 auto; padding:35px 1% 28px; color: #111111;">
<table style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;">
<!--[if mso]>
<table align="center" width="588" style="border-collapse: collapse;">
<![endif]-->
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="padding: 0px 0px 4px 0px; width: 100%; max-width: 588px;">
<p style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 15px; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 1.25;">
Content
</p>
</td>
</tr>
<!--[if mso]>
</table>
<![endif]-->
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;" align="center" bgcolor="#efefef" border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="display: block; max-width: 600px; margin: 0 auto; clear: both;">
<div style="display: block; max-width: 588px;width:98%; margin: 0 auto; padding: 6px 1% 16px;">
<table style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;" bgcolor="#efefef">
<!--[if mso]>
<table align="center" bgcolor="#efefef" width="588" style="border-collapse: collapse;">
<![endif]-->
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="padding: 0px 0px 4px 0px; width: 100%; max-width: 588px;">
<p style="font-size: 8.5pt; color: #999999;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; border: 0;">
Footer
<br>
<br>
<a target="_blank" href="%UNSUBSCRIBELINK%" style="font-size: 8.5pt; color: #278ac8 !important; line-height: 1.2; text-decoration: none; border: 0;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">
<span style="color: #278ac8; text-decoration: none;">
CLICK TO UNSUBSCRIBE
</span>
</a>
</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</body>
</html>
I found the answer to this problem. It seems to be a bug in (earlier) versions of IE (who guessed it...).
The key part of the problem is the 1% padding right and left in the DIV element that serves as a container.
<body style="width: 100%; margin: 0;">
<table bgcolor="#0568a6" border="0" style="background-color:#0568a6;border-collapse:collapse;border:0;margin:0;padding:0;width:100%">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="width:100%;max-width:600px;margin:0 auto">
// this DIV has right and left padding of 1% which causes a bug in IE
<div style="display:block;width:98%;max-width:588px;margin:0 auto;padding:3px 1%;background-color:#0568a6">
<table bgcolor="#0568A6" align="center" style="background-color:#0568a6;border-collapse: collapse;border:0;margin:0;padding:0;width:100%">
<!--[if mso]>
... and so on
The result was that in some mail clients (Gmail, AOL, Comcast, maybe some others) the container of the message was rendered with a HUGE width (approx. 100,000px, for no obvious reason of course) of which the padding took ca. 1000px on each side.
As the content was centered, it was simply out of view for the person opening the message (no normal person has such a wide screen)
I replaced the 1% padding with a 3px padding and that solved the problem.
Below is a screen shot to show the problem, rendered in IE8. The solution is to change the padding as described above.
I'm setting up an html template for a client so having fun with tables, yay.
Responsiveness previews correctly in desktop browser, but when sent to an iphone, the td's are not scaling with the percentage applied, just defaulting to content size. The example I've supplied is for images (trying to setup a nav for the template), but also applies to text only as well.
The goal is a 600px centered content area with the background of the email a light gray. Under 600px, the nav cells should responsively scale to 25% of the viewport, but with text content the cells shrink to text size, and images they expand to image size.
Anyone know a way on iphones to set table cell widths as a percentage of the viewport?
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1 user-scalable=no">
<style>
.wrapper {
width: 100%;
text-align: center;
background-color: #ebebeb;
}
.container {
width: 600px;
max-width: 600px;
margin: auto;
}
.header {
background-color: #ffffff;
width: 100%;
}
#media (max-width: 600px) {
html, body, .wrapper, .container, .header, .wrapper-td, .container-td {
width: 100% !important;
max-width: 100% !important;
}
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table class="wrapper">
<tr>
<td class="wrapper-td">
<table class="container">
<tr>
<td class="container-td">
<table class="header">
<tr>
<td style="width: 25%;">
<img src="http://s9.postimg.org/a3mogw58b/nav_membership.jpg" style="width: 100%;" />
</td>
<td style="width: 25%;">
<img src="http://s9.postimg.org/a3mogw58b/nav_membership.jpg" style="width: 100%;" />
</td>
<td style="width: 25%;">
<img src="http://s9.postimg.org/a3mogw58b/nav_membership.jpg" style="width: 100%;" />
</td>
<td style="width: 25%;">
<img src="http://s9.postimg.org/a3mogw58b/nav_membership.jpg" style="width: 100%;" />
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Try to add html, body{margin:0; padding:0} to the style, and cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" to all your tables.
Codepen: http://codepen.io/Bidstrup/pen/LVobpG
Is it safe to use position:absolute in a email template?
Depends on which mail clients your users are using. Outlook for example handles position: absolute well, Thunderbird on the other hand doesn't.
I would try designing your mail-template as "normal" as possible. Tables help a lot for example (yuck).
See the following page about styling tips on HTML mails, including some position absolute advice:
Style In Email
Adding to an old question, I know - but I can confirm that neither GMail supports position: absolute at the moment.
it is not a safe manner to use position absolute in emailers,because all of the email server did'nt support the tag..instead using postion absolute you guys can use
<table width="100%" align="center" style="Margin:0px; Padding:0px; border-collapse:collapse; background-color:rgb(255,255,255);max-width:600px;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" background="http://wallpapercave.com/wp/BGGdOwY.jpg">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top">
<p Style="Margin-top:45px; text-align:left; line-height: 24px; letter-spacing: 0.55px; Margin-bottom:10px; font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif!important; width: 540px;">Dear Artist/Vendor,</p>
<p Style="text-align:justify; line-height: 24px; letter-spacing: 0.55px; Margin-top:10px; Margin-bottom:10px; font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif!important; width: 540px;">We've received a request to reset your password. If you didn't make the request, just ignore this email. Otherwise, you can reset your password using this link:</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
even you guys can use clickable button on it by adding this code in another td
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
<meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" >
<title></title>
</head>
<body style="Margin:0px; Padding:0px;">
<table width="100%" align="center" style="Margin:0px; Padding:0px; border-collapse:collapse; background-color:rgb(255,255,255);" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="top">
<table width="100%" align="center" style="Margin:0px; Padding:0px; border-collapse:collapse; background-color:rgb(255,255,255);max-width:600px;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" background="http://wallpapercave.com/wp/BGGdOwY.jpg">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="top">
<table width="100%" align="center" style="Margin:0px auto; Padding:0px; border-collapse:n-left: 20px; max-width:600px; " border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" >
<tbody>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top">
<p Style="Margin-top:45px; text-align:left; line-height: 24px; letter-spacing: 0.55px; Margin-bottom:10px; font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif!important; width: 540px;">Dear Artist/Vendor,</p>
<p Style="text-align:justify; line-height: 24px; letter-spacing: 0.55px; Margin-top:10px; Margin-bottom:10px; font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif!important; width: 540px;">We've received a request to reset your password. If you didn't make the request, just ignore this email. Otherwise, you can reset your password using this link:</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table width="100%" align="left" style="Margin:0px auto; Padding:0px; border-collapse:collapse; max-width:600px; Margin-left: 20px; Margin-top:15px;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" >
<tbody>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top">
Reset Your Password
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
enter code here
According to Style in Email, neither AOL (before release 9) nor Mozilla Mail/ThunderBird (all versions) support absolute positioning in the email body.
absolute in css not working for HTML email.
If you gonna use absolute for Image combination, you can use such style.
background-image: url(url_to_your_image);
Hope it will help you.