I'm creating an HTML email and since background images can't be used on anything but <body> thought I could get around this by making a border image 100% height within a cell. Perhaps it was wishful thinking? I've searched at the solutions that worked in the past no longer work in modern browsers. Is there any special trick to making this happen without setting a hard height for the cell?
Here are the things I've tried so far:
<td width="25" style="margin:0; padding:0;">
<img src="http://www.example.com/images/side-left.jpg" width="25" height="100%" alt="border" style="margin:0; padding:0; display: block;" />
</td>
stretches the image to 100% height of the entire table (even though the table is nested in a <td>.
<td width="25" height="100%" style="margin:0; padding:0;">
<div style="height:100%; diplay: block;">
<img src="http://www.example.com/images/side-left.jpg" width="25" height="100%" alt="border" style="margin:0; padding:0; display: block;" />
</div>
</td>
ditto
<td width="25" height="1" style="margin:0; padding:0;">
<div style="height:100%; diplay: block;">
<img src="http://www.example.com/images/side-left.jpg" width="25" height="100%" alt="border" style="margin:0; padding:0; display: block;" />
</div>
</td>
setting a smaller td size does not force it to stretch as expected.
I assume you're mostly running into trouble in Outlook?
Hotmail doesn't recognize background images, but it does seem to recognize height="100%."
In my own tests, declaring height="100%" on an image, does successfully stretch it to the height of the cell in the major web-based clients (Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo).
Outlook only allows image stretching to a fixed size (and the image can only be stretched proportionately in both directions). The other clients allow significant stretching in one direction (up to ~4000% of the original size?)
Tips:
1) Use a tall image sized to fit Outlook, or slightly taller.
2) Using height="100%" will still stretch the image as needed in most non-Outlook clients.
3) Declaring a vertically repeating background image for the table cell is also useful as a fallback (but it won't help you with Outlook or Hotmail.)
Here is my preferred solution for border images:
<td width="25" height="100%" valign="top" style="background:Transparent url('http://www.mysite.com/images/side-left.jpg') repeat-y;margin:0; padding:0;">
<img style="margin:0; padding:0;display:block;" src="http://www.mysite.com/images/side-left.jpg" alt="border" width="25" height="100%" />
</td>
Try making the height of the cell a percentage instead of pixels in css. Like how Jezen Thomas said, use css but this time do it like this.
td {border: 4px solid red; height: /*height in desired percentage*/%; valign:top;}
img {height: 100%; width: 100%;}
Plus formatting webpages or email in just tables is bad practice. You should try to do it entirely in css and use tables only for tabular data. But since it's what you want to do I am not going to stop you.
Is it ok if you get the rest of the html so I can show the proper css way to do it if you are interested?
Never use div's in emails, gmail and android does not support this.
Its not possible for at image to have a 100% height or width in an e-mail.
You have to type the exact size in px. Its pretty annoying
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Coding inline and with tables, I made a simple HTML e-mail signature that contains two images. When I send it from MacOS Mail several different clients, it works well on desktop. On iOS Mail, it shrinks down the size of the table, which is expected behavior, but it makes it significantly smaller than it needs to be, thus making my font-sizes tiny.
The table has a 3 row, 2 column structure, two colored rows and one white one which has a colspan for full table width.
Things I have tested to no effect:
more or less text content
giving the cells a width in pixels
giving the whole table width:100%
marking images display:block or display:inline
Apparently iOS Mail thinks the table is wider than it is, or at least treats it that way.
When I remove the images the two columns become equally wide and the table fills the whole width. So I'm looking for a solution in how the images are styled; does anyone know if I can add some CSS or HTML attribute to the images to fix this?
Here's the code, stripped of some text styling to keep it legible:
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" >
<tr>
<td valign=top style="background:#f9f2c8;padding:21px 20px 0 20px;vertical-align:top;">
<div style="font-size:13px; ">
<div style="font-size:16px;font-weight:600;">Name of the sender </div>
<div>Description of the role of the sender</div>
</div>
</td>
<td valign=top style="background:#96e7cf;padding:18px 20px 0 16px;vertical-align:top;">
<img src='logo.png' width=124 height=41 alt="Org logo" style="width:124px;height:41px;display:inline;" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign=bottom style="background:#f9f2c8;padding:0 20px 20px 20px;vertical-align:bottom;">
<div><img src='line.png' alt="divider" width=210 height=24 style="width:210px;height:24px;display:inline;" /></div>
<div style="font-size:13px;">06 1234 5678</div>
</td>
<td valign=bottom style="background:#96e7cf;padding:0 20px 20px 20px;vertical-align:bottom;">
<div style="font-size:14px; font-weight:600; white-space:nowrap;">tagline of the org</div>
<div style="font-size:13px;">organisation.nl</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan=2 style="padding:20px;">
<p style="font-size:13px;margin:0 0 8px 0; ">Werkzaam op maandag, dinsdag, woensdagmorgen, donderdag en vrijdag</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
First, make your table width 100%:
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%">
That will make it fit the full width of its container.
Second, on the text-reduction, this whole table appears to only go down to about 415px. So if your mobile is smaller, it will scale it all as one group. To prevent that, make one or both of your images responsive. Here, I've made the divider responsive:
<div><img src="line.png" alt="divider" width="210" height="24" style="width: 100%;height: auto;display:inline;max-width: 210px!important;"></div>
I've added !important to the max-width because Outlook iOS has a default style that would change it 100% otherwise, potentially bloating your image.
Continue to use the width and height attributes because Outlook Windows desktop uses them.
How to make images flexible on Outlook?
I tried with #media, width:100%, max-width:150px and other stuff like that, but it doesn't work.
There is no support in outlook for #media and max-width: 150%
but you can use width="100%"
<img src="..." width="100%" style="display: block" alt="some alt" />
I want to make the grey images center aligned. Please guide me how can I do this.
Here is what I have tried:
<div id="responsivearea" style="margin-top: 50px;">
<div class="img-center">
<img style="clear:none;" class="size-thumbnail wp-image-2707" src="http://www.inspuratesystems.com/nayajeevan/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/visa-logo2-150x150.jpg" alt="visa logo" width="150" height="150" />
<img style="clear:none;" class="size-thumbnail wp-image-2705" src="http://www.inspuratesystems.com/nayajeevan/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/nethope-logo1-150x150.jpg" alt="nethope logo" width="150" height="150" />
<img style="clear:none;" class="size-thumbnail wp-image-2704" src="http://www.inspuratesystems.com/nayajeevan/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ILO-logo1-150x150.jpg" alt="ILO logo" width="150" height="150" />
</div>
</div>
Here is the site.
Simply use:
.img-center{text-align: center;}
As suggested already, magin auto... using your existing img-center class
.img-center{
margin:auto;
vertical-align:middle; /* If you mean vertically aligned */
}
text-align can work but is a little funny in cross browser support...
margin auto generally does the job and should work
otherwise just wrap them with center tags, while people may frown upon using center tags..THEY WORK CROSS BROWSER!! so they will NOT fail!
Otherwise, if you mean the footer images/logos on the site.. They are in a P tag without any class.. You can simply apply a text-align:center: to that p tag.
Set margin to auto. The browser will align the images to center for you
img {
margin: auto;
}
**Note all <> tags have been removed to allow code to display
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i have been playing around with this for hours and am not really getting it to work without using a workaround at the design end of things (ie Corel draw)
*Before i go any further,
First, website URL is AdventistAviation.com.au
Second, can i just say...i know this can be done with style sheets...however, in this case...i am not doing it that way!!! (so please dont bother pestering me with that option unless there is absolutely no way the method below can work)
Third, a workaround to my problem below, is to create the image already centered in its own background (the same size as the logo next to it) then import it (this is a bad idea because if in the future someone changes the main header background to a different color other than white...its gonna look awful!)
First i add the image (this works no problem)
However because the Logo on the left in the avada theme is approx 250×250 square, Tagline text is no longer centered in the header (as you can imagine comparing above with logo below)
I am using the themeforest AVADA Theme. In theme options>Banner Code For Header #4…
I would like to add the following inline css styling in an iframe for example, to vertically centre the Tagline (ie bring it down level with the middle of the logo)
style="vertical-align: middle;"
<iframe src="http://image_URL.png" style=”vertical:align: middle;” width="200" height="200"></iframe>
This doesnt seem to do anything different to the method in 1.
<div style="vertical-align: middle;"><iframe src="http://image_URL.png" width="200" height="200"></iframe></div>
I was hoping that if i place the iframe inside a tag containing the styling i might achieve my goal...alas it still doesnt work.
I have got to the point where my head is so full of nonworking methods i cant progress further.
Can someone help with this one?
p.s i have tried to find some inline css styling tutorials (specifically about vertical alignment styling) for the tag in html 5 without any luck.
damn w3c for depreciating the html vertical alignment method in html5!
# adam:
A simple solution is to change this code:
<div id="header-banner">
<div style="vertical-align: middle;" height="170" width="500">
<img src="https://googledrive.com/host/...etc..." width="400" height="200">
</div>
</div>
To just this:
<div id="header-banner" style="margin-top: 70px;">
<img src="https://googledrive.com/host/...." width="400" height="200">
</div>
There's no good reason to use inline styles for this, but anyhow, I've edited a chunk of your HTML with inline styles that will get what I think you want:
<div class="avada-row" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; display: table; width: 100%">
<div class="logo" style="display: table-cell;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-bottom:0px; vertical-align: middle;">
<a href="http://adventistaviation.com.au">
<img src="http://adventistaviation.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/AAA-QLD-LogoType5_outlinedSQC1-e1398740621697.jpg" alt="Adventist Aviation Association" class="normal_logo">
</a>
</div>
<div id="header-banner" style="display: table-cell; vertical-align: middle; float: none; text-align: right;">
<div style="/* vertical-align: middle; */" height="170" width="500">
<img src="https://googledrive.com/host/0B7IkcUtUKfX8SkpLS1NuTlR4cDA/AAA_Tagline.png" width="400" height="200">
</div>
</div>
</div>
I have been struggling to find a simple solution to the following problem using the CSS inline styles due to being on a free wordpress.com blog.
a table
inside each table cell there is an three parts
a hyperlink to enclose the two objects below
image - align vertical and horizontally centred in the table cell
text at the bottom of the table cell
<psedo markup>
<td>
<a href="#">
<img style="vertical-align:middle" src="" />
<p style="vertical-align:bottom">Text at the bottom</p>
</a>
but just cant seem to get a consistent result, am I better using <div style="display:block"> instead?
If you can use html5, use a figure:
<td>
<a href="http://gravatar.com">
<figure style="text-align: center;">
<img src="https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/5a25eba05dc8ac4384384c7a220958a6?s=32&d=identicon&r=PG&f=1"
alt="" width="32" height="32">
<figcaption>gravatar glyph</figcaption>
</figure>
</a>
</td>
The figure element was added precisely for situations like this, though the needed style here is a bit quirky.
HTML:
<table>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: center;">
<a>link</a>
<img style="display: block; margin: 0 auto;" src="http://placebacn.com/400/300">
<p>Bacon... Bacon... Bacon...</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Even if you can't add a CSS file you may be able to add a <style> block before the HTML which would be better than inline styles:
<style>
td {
text-align: center;
}
td img {
display: block;
margin: 0 auto;
}
</style>
Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/xeTPx/2/
Please don't use tables for layout (i.e. non-tabular data - not sure if this is or not), there are other ways to have a similar layout without the bloated markup and accessibility problems. display: flex is often a good option as it now has support in a lot of today's browsers. Sometimes even using other markup with CSS display: table and display: table-cell is another option.
This might be a good read on vertical-align: http://css-tricks.com/what-is-vertical-align/
I would suggest to separate img and text from the same alignment-structure. I think you can manage to center the img but the text ruins this alignment. The trick that I use is position>relative to the parent and position>absolute to the child. Here you go:
<td>
<a href="#" style='**position:relative;**'>
<img style="vertical-align:middle" src="" />
<p style="**position:absolute; bottom:0;**">Text at the bottom</p>
</a>
</td>
By doing this p is not in the same alignment structure anymore.
I hope this solves your problem.