Thank you all who have replied to my question. I have managed to "fix" most of
the styling in hotmail by using inline css. However, I've got a bit of a
problem with setting a negative top margin. Surprise, surprise, it displays
fine in the browser and outlook email but margin isn't being applied when
viewed in hotmail.
Here is the code:
<div style="margin: -100px 0 25px 0; padding: 25px;">
<h2 style="font: 2.2em/1.5; color: #003366; margin: 0; padding: 0;
width: 300px;"><i>Title</i></h2>
<span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 1.2em;">Subtitle</span>
</div>
Is my code valid?
How do I force the negative top margin to be displayed in hotmail?
By the way, changing the top margin to a +ve 100px doesn't make any difference
in hotmail, it just isn't being read, and the same goes for padding.
Regards
Bojana
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Steve Green
Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 9:54 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [WSG] email stripping out the css from tables?
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
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www.testpartners.co.uk
www.accessibility.co.uk
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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.
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" style="font: 100%/1.5 Verdana,
Lucida, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
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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";
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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