Kenneth, > I use the following technique, which works in every e-mail client that I > have tried.
Thanks indeed - that's very useful! Looking into this more, I don't think there's a solution but here's what's happening just in case you - or any of the other gurus - have any thoughts. Essentially the global navigation uses a sequence of li's styled with background images. This is the technique used at zeldman.com and some other websites. Unfortunately Hotmail is stripping out the background styling regardless of whether it is inline or within an embedded stylesheet. In other words, hotmail is taking this: <ul id="menu" style="background:transparent url(images/menu.gif) top left no-repeat;"><li><a href="#">Homepage</a></li></ul> ...and producing: <ul id=menu style=""><li><a href="#">Homepage</a></li></ul> Great, isn't it? So, it looks as though I am going to have to cut out menu buttons and do things the old-fashioned way just because of a tremendously popular and well-resourced web-base email service that should really know better. Oh well, I dare say I shouldn't be surprised. :-/ All the best, -- Ian Fenn Chopstix Media http://www.chopstixmedia.com/ ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
