RE: [WSG] email stripping out the css from tables?

Steve Green Sun, 02 Jul 2006 17:30:14 -0700

We do loads of email testing on a wide variety of email clients and web-based email services and I endorse everything in the article that Mathew recommended - it's spot on. In particular the web-based services do some horrible things; in one email we tested, one of them (Hotmail or Yahoo, I can't remember) rewrote the code for a form so it used GET instead of POST, with the result that the form no longer worked.

Ordinarily I would offer to test the email for you and help fix it (free of charge) but I am up to my backside in alligators this week - hence I'm working at 1am on Sunday night! I would be happy to do this in the future if anyone has a similar problem.

Steve Green
Director
Test Partners Ltd / First Accessibility
www.testpartners.co.uk
www.accessibility.co.uk

From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bojana Lalic
Sent: 03 July 2006 00:57
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [WSG] email stripping out the css from tables?

No, at the moment my css is embedded in the html, in the <head> part. I am trying to force the table to display the text with the particular styling.

Is the following code valid? It probably isn’t, as it doesn’t work, but how do I use inline styles to force the whole table to a certain font style etc.

From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Lazar
Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 9:18 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [WSG] email stripping out the css from tables?

Do you have an absolute path to the style sheet in the header? i.e <link rel="stylesheet" href=""http://your-domain.com/css/stylesheet.css">http://your-domain.com/css/stylesheet.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />

I think you'll find it will work if you do this. It's also a good idea to include the absolute URL for any images as well....

Regards,

Nick.

On 3 Jul 2006, at 09:39, Bojana Lalic wrote:

Hi all

I am building a newsletter for the email.

I used css initially but then the client complained that html wasn’t displaying the content as it should be. Instead of displaying two columns it only displays one and also strips out all the css.

I have now started modifying the template and plan to use a table (the client doesn’t care) and a lot of inline styles. So far, I have included a table, however, when the newsletter is sent in an email the table doesn’t seem to preserve the styling any more. It looks perfect in the browser but not in the email. Is email stripping out the css out of tables a known problem?

Any tips regarding the use of css and tables in emails would be greatly appreciated.

Regards

Bojana Lalic

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