Hi Guys, It is also possible to put your styles into the body instead of using inline CSS. Whilst this doesn't validate it gets around the head being stripped out and works in all email clients as far as I know (certainly did 9 months ago). This is the way many of the big email companies in the UK do it. James
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robin @ Xplore.net Sent: 07 December 2006 19:35 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [WSG] div stretching with text Thanks Tom, Yeah I get the idea, not ideal, but when needs must... Robin On 12/6/06 9:21 PM, "Robin @ Xplore.net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have built a template for a html email cms, and I am having trouble getting the editable regions to stretch vertically when text is entered, the text just scrolls out of the top of the div. I am guessing that it must be an old ie bug but can't figure out what the problem is, could you please help. Have you used this type of template before? Any emails with CSS we have done that were successful had no doctype or head. The outer-most container was the body tag. Also, all CSS had to be embedded in-line and repeated on elements as some online services strip CSS out of the head if it's there. For email, you gained the element control of CSS - which is far better than old-school spacer gifs and font tags - but lost a lot of the efficiencies. For example: <body style="margin:0; padding:0; border:0; background-color:#fff;"> <center> <snip...> <table width="540" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="border-top:1px solid #a19a9a; margin-top:35px;"> <tr> <td> <p style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000; font-size:11px; line-height:13px; padding-top:10px; padding-left:10px;">If you would rather not receive email updates from us, you can <a href="" style="color:#000000;">delete your name</a> from our list.</p> <p style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#000000; font-size:11px; line-height:13px; padding-left:10px;">If you have any questions about our privacy policy, ... </p> </td> </tr> </table> </center> </body> You get the idea, I think. Not ideal as far as css goes, I know, but this has been the most stable across desktop email apps and online email users for us. HTH -- Tom Livingston | Senior Multimedia Artist | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
