Subject: RE: [WSG] email client css suport

2005-03-30 Thread Tim White
I hear Hotmail, yahoo, and most web mails tend to strip head so you need to use inline styles all the time, however, it's not entirely true. I don't use inline styles on my e-mails and they work just fine. I create HTML e-mails as full-blown table-based HTML pages with a style block in the

Re: [WSG] email client css suport

2005-03-28 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Kvnmcwebn wrote: How much css -in the head of the html doc-can be used for html email layouts such as newsletters and the like? I assume that to much if any would be risky. This article may be worth a read http://www.alistapart.com/articles/cssemail/ -- Patrick H. Lauke

RE: [WSG] email client css suport

2005-03-28 Thread Scott Swabey \(Lafinboy Productions\)
I can't say as I've ever come across any problems with embedding style directives in emails, even with quite extensive style guides. The main consideration seems to be the overall size of the email, and obviously the larger your style declaration is, the larger the email will be. That said, the

RE: [WSG] email client css suport

2005-03-28 Thread Martin Baylis
That entirely depends on what email clients you need to support. Outlook express, Thunderbird , Outlook 2000 and above, Entourage all have fairly good html / css support (even some positioning) Hotmail, yahoo, and most web mails tend to strip head so u need to use inline styles (D'oh) Older