Hotmail does not support margin in HTML emails. Is there an alternative?
I would suggest use tables and play with the width of columns. HTML emails are sometimes better with tables. Also, you can take a look at an email you have in your inbox that does what you want and inspect source code.
As this answer seems a little vague I would also like to point to a very complete answer which covers in more details html emails.
Note:
When it comes to email HTML, note that all best practices from web development goes out the window.
Here is an example using tables,
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" style="width:600px;margin:0 auto;background:#FFF;">
<tr>
<td colspan="5" style="padding:15px 0;">
<h1 style="color:#000;font-size:24px;padding:0 15px;margin:0;">Header</h1>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width:15px;"> </td>
<td style="width:375px;">
Left Column Content
</td>
<td style="width:15px;"> </td>
<td style="width:180px;padding:0 0 0 0;">
Sidebar Content
</td>
<td style="width:15px;"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="5" style="padding:15px 0;">
<p style="color:#666;font-size:12px;padding:0 15px;margin:0;">Footer</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Live here http://jsfiddle.net/Wr76m/
I was able to get away with transparent horizontal bars, using padding to modify the height. For example:
<hr style="border: transparent; padding: 1px;">
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I'm trying to make a centralize button in HTML e-mail. The tricky part here is my wish the button to be as wide as its content. The following code works perfect except in Outlook.
Here is the HTML:
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td style="width:1%;white-space:nowrap">
<a href="#" style="text-decoration:none">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="margin-top:16px;padding:8px 16px 8px 16px;background-color:#5091cd;border-radius:2px">
<a href="#" style="font-size:15px;letter-spacing:.04em;color:#ffffff;text-transform:uppercase;text-decoration:none;display:block;text-align:center;max-width:600px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis">
Go to platform
</a>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</a>
</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
The expected result is:
The actual visualization:
Increasing the width of the td tag will help you adjust the content in one line.
<style="width:20%;white-space:nowrap">
if you want to take the full width of the container, make td width auto.
currently, td tag width is deciding how the content text will wrap.
I have created one template. While opening in gmail account some of the text line is coming in center (basically Thank You Part) but when I am opening the same template in Yahoo it (Thank You Part) is properly left aligned. I did some analysis and came to know that it also depends upon the rendering of different mail client. I want to fix this issue. Could anyone please help me with that?
Try something like...
<table cellspacing="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" role="presentation">
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left;">
Your Thank You text
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Some mail clients have text:center as default, e.g. Gmail and Outlook 2007,2010,2013. So you need to specify in each <td> the alignment of the text, as well as all other inline styles.
<table cellspacing="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td align="left" style="color:#000000">
Lorem ipsum
</td>
</tr>
</table>
As per new email rules (thanks Microsoft and Google) all margins are stripped from your HTML. So using margin: 0 auto is out for a solution.
The structure is:
<table>
<tr>
<td align="center">
Button
</td>
</tr>
Now I could add yet another table inside the td but it is already like the 2nd nested table and I'm hoping there is a different solution other then nesting another table. The align="center" doesn't work.
Try this code, I'm using this code to send html email and it works fine for gmail, outlook
<table style="width: 100%;">
<tr>
<td style="text-align: center;">
Button
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Also, you can check allow css property for html email here: https://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/
Cuz CSS in email is dangerous... buh BAM. ;D
<table width="100%">
<tr>
<td align="center">
Button
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Old, school, but why not just use blank td's on each side? Ah, it's the 90's again!
<table>
<tr>
<td width="25%"></td>
<td width="50%">
Button
</td>
<td width="25%"></td>
</tr>
</table>
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.
I'm having trouble getting this code to show up correctly in WebKit browsers(chrome/safari). It looks fine in IE6, IE7, and FireFox.
<table width="100%">
<tr>
<td rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:middle;">
<img src="/i/thumbnails/acotgc25sm.gif" alt="Gift Certificate"/>
</td>
<td style="vertical-align:middle;">
Wishlist
</td>
<td style="vertical-align:middle;">
Link to Us
</td>
<td style="vertical-align:middle;">
Affiliate Program
</td>
<td style="vertical-align:middle;">
Privacy
</td>
<td style="vertical-align:middle;">
Guarantee
</td>
<td rowspan="2" style="width:160px;">
<script src="http://www.gmodules.com/ig/ifr?url=http://www.google.com/ig/modules/translatemypage.xml&up_source_language=en&w=160&h=60&title=&border=&output=js"></script>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="vertical-align:middle;">
About Us
</td>
<td style="vertical-align:middle;">
Shipping
</td>
<td style="vertical-align:middle;">
Why Buy From Us
</td>
<td style="vertical-align:middle;">
Contact Us
</td>
<td style="vertical-align:middle;">
Help
</td>
</tr>
</table>
The problem is that WebKit makes the top row very small and the bottom row fill in the rest of the space instead of each row having an equal height.
Anyone have any ideas of how to make it show up how I want it to in WebKit based browsers?
I have a few recommendations for you but I can't answer your question completely because WebKit seems to render your source fine when I try it.
First, maybe you can change width="100%" to style="width:100%;" Perhaps combined with the other markup, it's putting the browser in quirks mode.
Second, make sure you have the correct doctype on and your code validates or AT LEAST comes close. The doctype I used when copying & pasting your code was XHTML Strict.
Otherwise, please post the source code of the whole page or just link to a live demo. Even a screenshot would help.
I could help more with a live example to test on but you could try adding this to your tr tags.
<tr style="height: 50%;">
Assuming you only need two rows this will bring them to equal height.
a proper example to ensure it is not showing correctly in webkit is the following:
<table width="200" border="1">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td rowspan="2" width="15">
this is a very high rowspan 2 row that will thus be split over 2 rows, it prevents the second row from being formatted in height
</td>
<td>
this should be big instead
</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20">
<td height="20">
this row fails to size to 20 height on webkit
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
as you can see the left part is rendered fine, but the right part should be different, as in the top row should populate the left over space and the bottom row is set to 20 height (as you can see neither the tr height nor the td height is taken into consideration by webkit). this renders fine in all other browsers
EDIT:
after playing around and tinkering about my problem, I came to the below solution.
completely relying on jquery reading the height attribute property from the row you want to change:
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#pipnorowspan").height(function(){
return $("#rcarowspan").height() - $("#piplowerrow").attr('height') + 2;
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<table width="200" style="border-collapse:collapse; border:1px solid #000;" id="ertable">
<tbody>
<tr style="border:1px solid #000;">
<td rowspan="3" width="15" id="rcarowspan" style="border:1px solid #000;">
this is a very high rowspan 2 row that will thus be split over 2 rows, it prevents the second row from being formatted in height
</td>
<td id="pipnorowspan" style="border:1px solid #000;">
this should be big instead
</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" id="piplowerrow" style="border:1px solid #000;">
<td height="20" style="border:1px solid #000;">
this row fails to size to 20 height on webkit
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</body>
</html>