So Gmail doesn't show embedded styles. But Shopify email with embedded styling looks styled as expected. My question is does Shopify preprocess its emails templates to turn embedded styles to inline?
All mail clients read and interprete mail in their own way.
Shopify displays the content as webpage in a browser.
It is therefore much more difficult to code a beautiful mail that a beautiful website.
There are several "good practice" to make pretty mail (the best is not to use div but tables)
You can find some doc on table here
And a summary of all the web tools and their compatibility to the mail clients here.
And doc about font in mail here
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I am trying to use custom font in my Email template, but it seems webmails like gmail remove style tag in email body. Is there any way to load a custom font in email body? Like file URL or base64 encoded data URI?
Custom fonts using #font-face only have limited support on email (no support for Gmail). https://www.caniemail.com/features/css-at-font-face/
The only way around it is to save it as an image. Having said that, many people do use images extensively for that reason.
If you do use an image for writing make sure you:
Use a font-size large enough to be read on the mobile rendition (which will often reduce it to half size)
Use the 'alt' attribute to write the text out for screen readers, smart watches & other smart devices that use a plain text rendition of your email
Test it on a few different email clients
Do not over-do it. Low quality (and spammy) emails tend to be image-heavy, and you don't want to get that sort of reputation.
I run a blog and distribute my posts in a Telegram channel. One day, I got surprised that links started showing as "Instant View" versions, since I never managed to support this technology (and, tbh, I don't like it either). Later, I discovered that readers that I don't know submitted IV templates to Telegram, and eventually one of them was approved.
I searched for any way to stop Telegram converting my posts into IV version, without success. Is there any (a meta tag, a form, whatever) to ask Telegram to disable IV in links from my domain?
Thanks!
Instant views are implemented via a set of hardcoded XPath rules, so you can change the markup of your website (like, class/id names) or paths (/blog/a1.html → /kek/a1). It can break the rules, and IV won't be shown.
One more trick is to integrate an iframe into the body of articles (or to the end). The reason is that iframes are not supported by the IV engine (the exclusion is embedded youtube). You can set 1×1 size, to make it invisible to users.
Another trick is to integrate an image with src tag leading to some nonexistent path. Telegram server won't be able to fetch the resource, and IV generation will be failed.
No. You can't disable instant view for your blog or site. That's just how Telegram instant view works. It will cache hundreds of sites and crop the content of the articles. You can read more about it here:
https://instantview.telegram.org/
Currently, there's a contest for instant view templates. The goal is to get as many sites working with instant view as possible.
I make a website and I try to share it via Line chat. It seems that Line chat has a feature to display web preview like Facebook does. My question is, how to control which image and description that will be shown in Line chat? I know for Facebook but I never know in Line. I have tried googling around but I don't know the keyword for it. The google result is not what I expected.
Thank you for your help.
I think what you are searching is using HTML Meta Tags on sites. Social Media such as facebook, twitter, etc. usually reads index.html's <meta> tags to provide a preview about the sites. You may learn more about meta tags here.
I know how to create an HTML email template for Outlook, by copying your HTML file (in Windows) to %AppData%\Microsoft\Stationery. However, if you use the template to send emails Outlook messes around with it first - adding CSS to the head, stripping out things like media queries (from the head), adding its own CSS classes to the HTML etc etc.
Is there a way this can be avoided or minimised?
Thanks,
Toby
Outlook completely rewrites the HTML using the MS Word rendering engine when you send out. Pretty much once Outlook has its claws on your email, it is now a Word doc.
Also, I would recommend saving the code as an HTML file, then using Insert > Document >Insert as Text option when you go to send a new email in Outlook to create your HTML email instead of stationary. This allows much more leniency in HTML/CSS display. (Walkthrough)
Designing for sending from Outlook is extremely tricky and unless you have an experienced HTML/CSS email designer, I would recommend (as much as it pains me to say) that you just create it through Word and saving as HTML file. As long as it is going from Outlook to Outlook, there should be little to no discrepancy in design.
If you are going to send to recipients that do not use Outlook, then you will need another email client to send from or deal with the fact that either these people will get less than optimal email messages or create a super simple design that can display well across all email clients.
I've got a webpage with just text and some formatting that I'd like to embed into an Exchange email.
Can I format an iFrame in an email to Exchange users?
I've tried something like this with no luck from a webmail exchange client.
Using iframes in email doesnt work in practice because it is great security risk, hence all iframes etc are blocked by anti-spams and email clients.
Consider embedding a link - still - it is also threat, and sometimes it can be blocked more often then message without links.
The best is to make both text and html version, embed links in both, this gives the higher chance of getting thru.