I have a question related marquee element? is marquee or any Js function work in mail, like gmail, yahoo mail, outlook etc.
If yes than how please define.
This is a blog post (from 2010) explaining <marquee> support in different clients:
http://stylecampaign.com/blog/2010/08/animating-emails-using-the-marquee-tag/
Notably, Gmail, Outlook and Thunderbird are not supporting this, but Yahoo and Hotmail are supporting.
As far as HTML marquee element is concerened so Answer is yes because most email clients have ability to process HTML elements in BODY here is an working example.Go through it.
if you wish to use advance JS then i think your needed javascript files must be located on server on the internet and you can use the javascript function animation etc in email body though i am not very sure but i think it should do like this.
I read somewhere that using scripts in your email may force your email/newsletter to be spammed by the email client so better not using it.
Alternatively if you wish to include common animations like image slideshow and you not having many images then using gif of your images may help you.
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I'm doing a newsletter with mailchimp.
But when I send a test mail to myself, Outlook deforms it, is it normal?
I tried to change it to HTML but it doesn't worked.
Yes it is normal, doing e-mails is tricky.
Please share with use the markup.
Build e-mails have a lot of tweaks and tricks. You might have some compatibility issue on your code.
Im making a email template and they wanna put background images underneath the text - and to most email clients that is a no no.
So i tough can you make a fallback to the clients that don't support it?
Or is their a hack to make it work?
On this picture you got a list over css support
also see this link
There is a technique that is supported by all major clients: emailbg.net. The VML is a hack for Outlook which doesn't support CSS background images (except in the body tag).
You should always set a bgcolor however as most clients load with images disabled.
I have a template which i used for sending emails written purely in hand made with css, and then i tested in Firefox/InternetExplorer/Chrome browser. But when i send that email to My boss PC as he is always Microsoft outlook user.
He always gets the alignment broken, texts broken all problems start. My question is how do you really write then? None of the web browser showing my template wrong.
I searched a lot, but most answers are not deeply and correctly well answered about this. I would really appreciate some experts input on this.
Thanks
outlook uses an older version of Trident, the CSS rendering engine. Depending on what Outlook your boss is on, the worse it can get. Outlook 2010 actually reverted to an older version of Trident because of Microsoft losing the Anti-trust case with the EU, so whatever version was before 2010 actually renders better, however they are both quite subpar # best.
you're going to want to literally stop developing with modern html/css and fall back on old school table layouts. i know, its gross, but you're going to have to do it for email.
the best tests are native, but if you don't have access to both versions (not many do) you should check out EmailOnAcid.com, they provide a plethora of email clients you can test on.
constantcontact.com, mailchimp.com and campaignmonitor.com all offer more than testing services if you need anything else.
Outlook 2007 is the bad guy. Any newer or older is much better. In Outlook 2007 lots of CSS commands don't work.
See this page: http://www.email-standards.org/ for details.
However, try sending your emails to Gmail.com and see how it gets displayed in Gmail web interface - Gmail is quite restrictive and as a rule of thumb, if it displays nicely, it should look good in other web clients too.
Some advice regarding HTML emails:
Outlook
It is good to provide width for Outlook, otherwise the CSS may crash.
Outlook doesn't support padding for <div>s / <p>s, float and various other things.
Gmail
For Gmail, you should use inline CSS in preference to defining classes.
Gmail actually parses CSS provided by you and for instance, changes height to min-height so using height is useless. However min-height of <td> is not respected by the browsers, so internal <div>s inside <td>s can be used to assure that min-height was applied.
Gmail strips background images, and generally in all email clients images are displayed upon user request for security reasons. Therefore, wrap images with <div> and set background color and color of this outer div, and provide alt (alternative text) for image (note also that images with empty src do not preserve width and height while rendered by the browser).
Hi I am building a small web based email client. I am facing problems in displaying HTML mails. What are the best practices involved in displaying an HTML mail? Some things I found
Css Reset
Strip body tag in the mail
First of all, it's important to not allow all the CSS and HTML tags. I would look for the file and allow a defined set of HTML tags and CSS attributes.
For example, if you reset the CSS, you can still send stuff like <iframe>, <form> and all other possible malicious tags.
So I would start of thinking what kind of HTML tags would you like to support, and strip all other ones out of it. And then the same for the CSS.
This is by no means easy. I mean you also would have to take in account things like people trying to break your interpreter...
You could look into this Sitepoint Blogpost, it describes how people should code HTML-emails. So it might be a good idea to start there and see what's usually supported.
The one sentence answer would be "1. Use table-based layouts, 2. only inline CSS, and 3. test in every email client possible."
The client testing is probably the most important because every email client (and client + browser combination) may have its own quirks and many are just learned along the way; such as using HTML attributes width & height because Outlook won't always follow the inline styles for width & height, or that Gmail tends to add margins around images unless you explicitly set margin:0 for the HTML elements, etc. etc.
When fixing the look of an HTML email in one client ends up breaking it in another client, don't keep adding more and more styling: try to simplify the HTML/CSS, even if it means writing more markup. For example, if padding and margins don't look right, the same look could be achieved by adding more rows or columns to the table and fixing their heights/widths. More tags is simpler than worrying about how all the email clients will render the CSS box model.
There's a lot of articles and blog posts on HTML-for-email such as http://articles.sitepoint.com/article/code-html-email-newsletters that are helpful -- though a lot are out of date with newer versions of clients.
I know it's possible to use CSS to add page breaks to web pages, for when they're printed.
I also know CSS support in HTML emails is poor.
So, is there a way to generate a page break when an HTML email is printed? Or given the variety of email clients out there, is that just a daft question?
See this article on CSS support in HTML emails it gives a list of what is and what is not possible.
Also you can validate your CSS here: http://getfractal.com/ once you have made any changes and it will inform you which clients are compatible.
I'd say do it the standard CSS way. It'll work for some e-mail reading agents. There's no other way to hint at page breaks. If it's really important that people can print the message then maybe make the message available through the web too and tell the recipient to print that one.