Aweber email template, In outlook the width is messed up - css

We are trying to make this work in outlook as well, but the solutions I've found online aren't working. The email in outlook has a width about 1500px.
Does anyone know a solution?
The code is generated in Aweber. We tried many things, but nothing seems to affect the looks in outlook. :(
<!-- LOGO -->
<div style="max-width:680px;margin:auto;" class="email-container">
<!--[if mso]>
<table style=”word-break: break-all;” cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" width="680" align="center">
<tr>
<td>
<![endif]-->
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="center" width="100%" style="max-width:680px;">
<tbody><tr>
<td style="padding:30px 0;text-align:center;" class=""><aw:header></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<!-- BODY -->
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="center" width="100%" style="max-width:680px;border-radius:3px;overflow:hidden">
<tbody>
<!-- 1 Column Text + Button -->
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#ffffff">
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" width="100%">
<tbody><tr>
<td mc:edit="lead_copy" style="padding:40px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22px;color:#555555;" class=""><aw:body></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
</td>
</tr>
<!-- Clear Spacer -->
<tr>
<td height="40" style="font-size:0;line-height:0;" class="">
 
</td>
</tr>
<!-- 3 Cols -->
<!-- Clear Spacer -->
<!-- Minuscule -->
</tbody></table>
<!-- Email Footer -->
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="center" width="100%" style="max-width:680px;">
<tbody><tr>
<td style="padding:40px 10px;width:100%;font-size:12px;font-family:sans-serif;line-height:18px;text-align:center;color:#888888;" class="x-gmail-data-detectors"><aw:footer></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<!--[if mso]>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<![endif]-->
</div>
</center>

Outlook doesn't read the max-width value at all. If you use the max-width in combination with width:100%, that will help. Alternatively, you can use some conditional statements that will help you out with the width handling on different clients. I asked a member of AWeber's template team for you and they suggested these two:
<!--[if !mso]><!--><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="max-width:600px!important; width:100%;"><![endif]-->
<!--[if gte mso 9]><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600"><![endif]-->
Having the conditionals will let the width be 100% on mobile devices, which I assume you also want, but be 600 elsewhere.

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Use background-image AND center without gap for Outlook

Since using background images in an HTML mail for outlook 2007-2016 is not supported by CSS I tried this workound with VML:
This is my DOM before using VML:
<table width="100%" align="center" height="227" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" >
<tr>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#F4C046"
style="background-image: url('../image.jpg');
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-size: cover;
background-position: center;
background-color:#F4C046;border:solid">
<table width="600" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<!--- some content -->
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Now this works for most email clients, but in outlook 2007-2016 the background-image is ignored and in renders without the background color like this:
When I try to use the "VML" solution my code looks like this:
<table width="100%" align="center" height="227" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" >
<tr>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#F4C046"
style="background-image: url('../image.jpg');
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-size: cover;
background-position: center;
background-color:#F4C046;border:solid">
<!--[if gte mso 9]>
<v:rect xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" fill="true" stroke="false" style="mso-width-percent:1000;">
<v:fill type="frame" src="../myimg.jpg" color="#F4C046" />
<v:textbox style="mso-fit-shape-to-text:true" inset="0,0,0,0">
<![endif]-->
<table width="600" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<!--- some content -->
</table>
<!--[if gte mso 9]>
</v:textbox>
</v:rect>
<![endif]-->
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Now the background is working, hover the table thats on the background is not centered anymore:
Also if I make the outlook window small a gap appears:
I could wrap my table that should be centered one more time with a full with table like this:
<table width="100%" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td align="center">
<table width="600" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<!--- some content -->
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
to fix the centering:
However the gap still appears:
Any idea how to properly use background image and center the content, without the gap issue?
Not sure whats wrong with your code, but maybe you can use this I found in an old email I made. It works with outlook 2010,13,16. I hope it helps you.
NB: Dont mind all the classes :)
<table bgcolor="#efefef" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td align="center">
<table align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"
class="w394 w355-413 w300-374" width="640">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td align="left" background="https://placeimg.com/640/540/arch" bgcolor="#efefef"
class="w394 w355-413 w300-374 break h400" height="540"
style="background-size:640px 960px;repeat:no-repeat;" width="640">
<!--[if gte mso 9]>
<v:rect xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" fill="true" stroke="false" style="width:640px;height:540px;">
<v:fill type="tile" src="https://placeimg.com/640/540/arch" color="#efefef" />
<v:textbox inset="0,0,0,0">
<![endif]-->
<div>
<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td height="50"> </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"
class="w280 w240-413" valign="middle" width="320">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td align="center" class="f28"
style="padding:20px;font-size:36px;line-height:40px;font-family: Arial;font-weight: 400;color:#be1f24;"
valign="top">Lorem <b>IPSUM</b> dolor <b>sit </b>amet</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td height="50"> </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
<!--[if gte mso 9]>
</v:textbox>
</v:rect>
<![endif]-->
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

I hate Outlook Emails: Missing Border Editions '07, '10, '13

Yes, almost everyone hates creating emails in Outlook (Android is almost as bad with Gmail and such). But, most of us are whingeing about getting rid of borders and I am whingeing about a border that does not want to work in Outlook '07, '10 & '13 (the usual suspects). Here is the code. It works everywhere...perfectly. Beautifully. Exquisitely. I have seen no one deal with a missing border. Can you help me, please...Godfather?
<table bgcolor="#ffffff" width="594" border="3" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: #b29d6c 3px solid;" class="deviceWidth">
Without knowing the entirety of your code, I cannot give you any other suggestions but will provide some proof that the code I am providing (see below) should work for the Outlook version that you are experiencing issues with.
Outlook 2007
http://i.imgur.com/tbVafPl.png
Outlook 2011
http://i.imgur.com/W1tvXSk.png
Outlook 2013
http://i.imgur.com/PvLAj3T.png
I have tested the code that you have provide. Here is a sample code that I put together that include your code at the very top. Notice that in all of the screen grabs above, setting your border properties does in fact work. There could be other issues within the entirety of your HTML.
Sample Code
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<!--[if !mso]><!-->
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
<!--<![endif]-->
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
</head>
<body leftmargin="0" marginwidth="0" topmargin="0" marginheight="0" offset="0" style="margin: 0px;outline: none;padding: 0px;width: 100%;background-color: #EFEFEF;background: #EFEFEF;">
<div style="margin: 0px;outline: none;padding: 0px;width: 100%;background-color: #EFEFEF;background: #EFEFEF;font-family:arial,sans;font-size:15px;color:#555555;text-align: center;">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="top" width="100%" style="font-family:arial,sans;font-size:15px;color:#555555;mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="650" bgcolor="#EFEFEF" style="min-width: 650px;font-family:arial,sans;font-size:15px;color:#555555;">
<tr>
<td width="650" valign="top" align="left" style="padding:50px;background-color: #ffffff;font-family:arial,sans;font-size:15px;color:#555555;text-align:left;line-height:150px;line-height:1.5;mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="650" bgcolor="#ffffff" border="3" style="border: #b29d6c 3px solid;min-width: 650px;font-family:arial,sans;font-size:15px;color:#555555;">
<tr>
<td width="650" valign="top" align="center" style="padding:50px;background-color: #ffffff;font-family:arial,sans;font-size:15px;color:#555555;text-align:center;line-height:150px;line-height:1.5;mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;">
This example sets the border styling on the table tag, not the table cell
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<br><br><br><br>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="650" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="min-width: 650px;font-family:arial,sans;font-size:15px;color:#555555;">
<tr>
<td width="650" valign="top" align="center" style="border: #b29d6c 3px solid;padding:50px;background-color: #ffffff;font-family:arial,sans;font-size:15px;color:#555555;text-align:center;line-height:150px;line-height:1.5;mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;">
Has the CSS border properties set on the table cell
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<br><br><br><br>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="650" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="min-width: 650px;font-family:arial,sans;font-size:15px;color:#555555;">
<tr>
<td width="100%" valign="top" align="center" style="background-color:#b29d6c;padding:3px;">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="650" bgcolor="#EFEFEF" style="min-width: 650px;font-family:arial,sans;font-size:15px;color:#555555;">
<tr>
<td width="100%" valign="top" align="center" style="padding:50px;background-color: #ffffff;font-family:arial,sans;font-size:15px;color:#555555;text-align:center;line-height:150px;line-height:1.5;mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;">
This technique uses an outter table with the background color of the border and a padding set to 3 pixel to mimic the borders around the text block.
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Can I use a table as background and add a different table on top of it?

I am working on an email template so my options are limited to tables.
I need a way to achieve the following using tables
All content is generated dynamically via RSS feed so I cannot use images.
Here's what I have so far
<table width="100%" bgcolor="#ffffff" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" st-sortable="banner"><tbody><tr>
<td>
<table width="600" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" align="center" class="devicewidth"><tbody><tr>
<td width="100%">
<table width="600" align="center" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" class="devicewidth"><tbody><tr>
<!-- start of image --><td align="center"> *|FEEDBLOCK:http://domain.com/feed/|* *|FEEDITEMS:[$count=1]|*
<a target="_blank" href="*|FEEDITEM:URL|*">*|FEEDITEM:IMAGE|*</a>
</td>
</tr></tbody></table>
<!-- end of image -->
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="100%">
<table width="150" align="left" bgcolor="#ff4800" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" class="devicewidth"><tbody><tr>
<!-- start of title --><td align="left">*|FEEDITEM:TITLE|*</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<!-- start of content -->
<td align="left" bgcolor="#ffffff">*|FEEDITEM:CONTENT|* </td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<!-- end of title -->
</td>
</tr>
<!-- Spacing -->
<tr><td height="10" style="font-size:1px; line-height:1px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"></td></tr>
<!-- Spacing -->
</tbody></table>
</td>
</tr></tbody></table>
Yes you can always do that. I have tried to get some similar kind of layout with respect to the screen-shot in your post.
You may check this code
<html>
<head>
<title>My Layout</title>
<style type="text/css">
table{
border:1px solid #c4c4c4;
}
td{
border:1px solid #c4c4c4;
}
#table1{
width: 800px;
}
.table1-td-left{
height:400px;
width:200px;
background-color: green;
}
.table1-td-right{
width:600px;
background-color: yellow;
}
.table2-td-left{
background-color: red;
width: 200px;
}
.table2-td-right{
background-color: blue;
width: 300px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table id="table1">
<tr>
<td class="table1-td-left">LHS</td>
<td class="table1-td-right">
<table id="table2">
<tr>
<td class="table2-td-left">Content # 1</td>
<td class="table2-td-right">Content # 2</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
You may also see this Fiddle Demo.
Basically you need to table within td.
This can be achieved, however, know that background images are not supported in Outlook 2003, 2007, and 2013. If you are not looking to support those email clients here is how you can achieve this. Disclaimer: this should be tested in Litmus or Email on Acid to verify the email clients you wish to support are producing the results you intended.
<table width="620" height="400" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" background="http://ingridwu.dmmdmcfatter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/placeholder.png">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top" style="padding-top: 75px;">
<table width="200" bgcolor="#dddddd" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><h2>Title</h2></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p>Some text</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
You can also view it here: http://jsfiddle.net/fcpz1um2/
using the backgrounds.cm method, you can do something like below sample and it should work in about 99% of email clients. It will need media queries and such to make it responsive, but should render consistently - even in ALL Outlooks.
<table width="620">
<tr>
<td background="http://i.stack.imgur.com/dDVdU.png" bgcolor="#EFEFEF" width="100%" height="300" valign="top" style="-webkit-background-size: cover; -moz-background-size: cover; -o-background-size: cover; background-size: cover; background-position:center; background-image:url(http://i.stack.imgur.com/dDVdU.png); background repeat: no-repeat;">
<!--[if gte mso 9]>
<v:rect xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" fill="true" stroke="false" style="width:660px;height:250px;">
<v:fill type="frame" src="http://i.stack.imgur.com/dDVdU.png" />
<v:textbox inset="0,0,0,0">
<![endif]-->
<div style="text-align:left;">
<table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
<tr>
<td height="34" style="font-size:1px; mso-line-height-rule:exactly; line-height:1px;"> </td>
</tr>
</table>
<table align="left" width="230" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="vertical-align:bottom; max-width:430px;">
<tr>
<td style="padding-left:5px;">
<table align="left" bgcolor="red" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="vertical-align:bottom; max-width:430px;">
<tr>
<td style="color:#FFFFFF; font-size:67px; line-height:80px; padding:5px;">30% <span style="font-size:40px;">Off</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#000000" style="color:#FFFFFF; padding:5px;">HURRY UP! GRAB YOUR BITE</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
<!--[if gte mso 9]>
</v:textbox>
</v:rect>
<![endif]-->
</td>
</tr>
</table>

html email design for gmail – doesn't show images

I'm designing a email template and test it on various clients including gmail.
Gmail just won't display the images though. Don't tell me gmail doesn't support it cause I'm getting images all the time.
The logo is of course in the html code, not css.
Here's my code for the header-table:
<table align="center" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 1.5em;">
<tr>
<td>
<p>
<img style="display: block; margin: auto;" align="center" alt="Example logo" src="http://example.com/media/images/email/example-logo.png"/>
</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Any suggestions?
you have mistake
alt="Example" logo"
This html must work
<table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" bgcolor="#fefefe">
<tr>
<td align="center">
<table width="700" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;">
<!--header starts-->
<tr>
<td align="center" width="100%"><img src="http://siteurl.com/logo_beta.png" alt="Company Logo" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left">
<p><strong><font size="2.5" face="Times New Roman, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hi User!</font></strong>
</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><span><br></span></td></tr>
<!--header ends-->
<!--content starts-->
<tr>
<td colspan="3" align="center">
<table width="700" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;">
<!--Table Content-->
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<!--content ends-->
<!--fotter starts -->
<tr>
<td align ="left">
<p><strong><font size="2.5" face="Times New Roman, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Thanks<br>
With best wishes, Company</font></strong>
</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Gmail automatically shows you the images in your messages. If you have a slow Internet connection or limited mobile data, you may want to change your setting so that Gmail asks you before showing images.
Note: This is the reason we shouldn't depend on images. Better way is
to use the style alt text so if images is blocked by email provider due to low internet connection or due to security issue a mail still
should work.
Gmail scans every message for suspicious content and if Gmail considers a sender or message potentially suspicious, images won’t be displayed and you’ll be asked whether you want to see the images.
Actual content is from gmail support.

min-height css is not working in outlook 2007 newsletter

i have made a newsletter in html with inline css and its working fine but when we are seeing it in outlook its not looking good and there are some css missing.its working fine with all other like gmail.
Here is the link for that html template:
http://fashionfad.in/newsletter/april-29/
Outlook is one of the mail services with the poorest support for css styles. Here you have a list of supported styles in different mail clients. I can't find min-height support, but from what I see, min-width and max-width are also not supported.
Min-height is not supported. Instead set your table cell height="" to the minimum and it will stretch larger if needed:
<!-- this has height set to 100, but stretches larger vertically -->
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#CCCCCC">
<tr>
<td valign="top" height="100">
Table 1<br>...<br>...<br>...<br>...<br>...<br>...<br>...<br>...<br>...<br>...
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<br><br>
<!-- this has height set to 100, faking "min-height" -->
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#CCCCCC">
<tr>
<td valign="top" height="100">
Table 1<br>...
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Alternatively if you are clever with your table nesting, you can fake min-height. This is better when you don't want to set a specific height on your cells, allowing the height to be controlled by the content instead:
<!-- this has no "min-height" -->
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td valign="top">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#CCCCCC">
<tr>
<td valign="top">
Table 1<br>...<br>...<br>...<br>...<br>...<br>...<br>...<br>...
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td valign="top">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#999999">
<tr>
<td valign="top">
Table 2<br>...<br>...<br>...<br>...
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<br><br>
<!-- this fakes "min-height" -->
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td valign="top">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#CCCCCC">
<tr>
<td valign="top">
Table 1<br>...<br>...<br>...<br>...<br>...<br>...<br>...<br>...
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td valign="top" bgcolor="#999999">
Table 2<br>...<br>...<br>...<br>...
</td>
</tr>
</table>

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