I have a problem with an html email template in Gmail. In all other rendered browsers/mail clients it's rendered good so far, but I discovered a problem on Gmail Android App (tested on Samsung Galaxy S9+).
As you can see in the image, the big title beside the image is cut due to overflow - and I have no solution on how to prevent this. As said before, this happens on no other (mobile) mail client so far.
Found on Stack and other resources, that Gmail App can increase font-size - tried out following tipps I've seen so far, all without any positive effect:
!important directly on <td> and/or <a> with .listing-title
font-size in pt instead of px (with and without !important)
spacer.gif as top row (creates huge empty space on left side)
white-space: nowrap; can't be used because usually these titles are bigger than one line and this looks weird when cut off with overflow:hidden
special class with u + .gmail
Even if I change height of image and text-container - this then effects ALL mail clients of course...
Note: I'm not allowed to do big design changes, so it needs to be img on left side and these texts on right side.
Does anyone has further suggestions on how this cut off could be prevented?
Thank you in advance!
.ReadMsgBody {
width: 100%;
}
.ExternalClass {
width: 100%;
}
span.yshortcuts {
color: #000;
background-color: none;
border: none;
}
span.yshortcuts:hover,
span.yshortcuts:active,
span.yshortcuts:focus {
color: #000;
background-color: none;
border: none;
}
html,
table {
font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, "Helvetica Neue", arial;
}
.main-tbody * {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
.padding {
width: 50px;
}
.copyright {
width: 500px;
}
.location-row {
display: block !important;
}
.button-padding {
display: none !important;
}
#media screen and (max-width:620px) {
.location-row {
display: none !important;
}
.main-table {
width: 320px !important;
}
.inner-table {
width: 320px !important;
}
.image-listing {
width: 80px !important;
height: 60px !important;
max-width: 80px !important;
max-height: 60px !important;
}
.image-container {
width: 80px !important;
height: 60px !important;
}
.listing-title {
font-size: 14px !important;
line-height: 18px !important;
height: 35px !important;
}
.listing-price {
font-size: 12px !important;
height: 14px !important;
}
.button-padding {
display: block !important;
}
.copyright {
width: 320px !important;
}
}
a[x-apple-data-detectors],
.x-gmail-data-detectors,
.x-gmail-data-detectors *,
.aBn,
u+#body a,
#MessageViewBody a {
color: inherit;
text-decoration: none;
font-size: inherit;
font-family: inherit;
font-weight: inherit;
line-height: inherit;
}
<body id="body" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Ubuntu, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; margin:0; min-width:320px;">
<table class="main-table" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center" style="text-align: center; background: #f5f5f5; margin-inline-start: auto; margin-inline-end: auto;" width="600">
<tbody class="main-tbody">
<!-- Header -->
<tr align="center" style="margin: 0 auto; text-align: center;">
<td colspan="3">
<table class="inner-table" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center" width="500" style="margin: 0 auto; text-align: center;">
<tbody align="center">
<tr>
<td colspan="3" height="40" style="height: 40px;">
<p style="margin: 0;"></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 40px; width: 100%;" align="center">
<td colspan="3" class="desktop-logo" width="500">
<img height="48" width="128" style="display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle" alt="Logo" src="https://via.placeholder.com/128x48.png?text=logo">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" height="30" style="height: 30px;">
<p style="margin: 0;"></p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<!-- Header -->
<tr>
<td class="padding" width="50"></td>
<td>
<!-- Listing -->
<table class="inner-table" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center" style="background-color: #ffffff;" width="500">
<tbody>
<tr class="list-container" style="width: 100%; max-height:140px;">
<td width="10"></td>
<td class="image-container" colspan="1" width="160" height="140" style="max-height:140px;">
<a href="">
<img class="image-listing" src="https://via.placeholder.com/160x120.jpeg?text=image" alt="" style="display: block; width: 100%; height: 100%; max-height: 120px;max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover" width="160" height="120">
</a>
</td>
<td width="10"></td>
<td class="text-container" colspan="2">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="left" width="100%" style="width: 100%;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="padding-top-inner-table" height="10" style="height: 10px;">
<p style="margin: 0;"></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="" style="width: 500px">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="left" width="500" style="width: 100%; text-align: left; color: #212338;">
<tbody>
<tr class="location-row">
<td style="width:100%; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400;display: block; height:16px;" height="16">
<a href="" style="overflow: hidden; width:100%;height: 16px; margin: 0;text-decoration: none;color: #232f3f; display: block">
A small title
</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="location-row" height="10" style="height: 10px;">
<p style="margin: 0;"></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="listing-title" style="font-size: 16px; height:42px; font-weight: 400;display: block" height="42">
<a class="listing-title" href="" style="overflow: hidden; height: 42px; margin: 0;color: #232f3f;display: block; text-decoration: none; font-weight:bold; font-size: 16px;">
The very main big title which makes problems
</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="location-row" height="27" style="height: 27px;">
<p style="margin: 0;"></p>
</tr>
<tr height="8" style="height: 8px;">
<p style="margin: 0;"></p>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 19px;">
<td class="listing-price" height="18" style="height:18px; margin: 0;font-weight: normal; font-size:14px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">
Tag 1 | Tag 2 | € price
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</a>
</td>
<td width="15" style="width: 15px;">
<p style="margin: 0;"></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" height="8" style="height: 8px;">
<p style="margin: 0;"></p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="5" height="10" style="height: 10px; background: #f5f5f5;">
<p style="margin: 0;"></p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<!-- Listing -->
</td>
<td class="padding"></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
I can't seem to reproduce the problem on your screenshot in Gmail on Android. My guess is there's something else in your code conflicting with Gmail's rendering. One thing I see is that there are missing <td>s here and there in your code. For example here:
<tr class="location-row" height="27" style="height: 27px;">
<p style="margin: 0;"></p>
</tr>
This should be:
<tr class="location-row" height="27" style="height: 27px;">
<td><p style="margin: 0;"></p></td>
</tr>
There are also two <body> elements in your code.
As a general rule for Gmail troubleshooting, I would:
Make sure your <style> tags are inside the <head> of your email. Gmail doesn't support <style> in the <body>.
Make sure your email can render correctly with and without <style> tags. Gmail mobile webmail and Gmail Apps with Non Gmail Accounts don't support <style> tags.
Make sure your HTML overall weight is not bigger than 102 Kb. Gmail clips email at 102 Kb and limits <style> to 16 Kb.
Use a neutral service that doesn't alter your HTML to send your tests (like Putsmail or Parcel).
Here’s an old post I wrote about troubleshooting Gmail’s responsive design support .
If this still doesn't help, feel free to share the entire code that you sent to trigger that bug in the first place.
Related
For some reason, the text <p> in the footer section of my email template in Outlook 365 Windows is still remaining the color black. This is also happening for the button text too <a> but all other clients are fine when tested.
Here is the media query and footer markup:
#media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
body, center, table {
background: #2d2d2d!important;
color: #ffffff!important;
}
.darkmode-footer {
background-color: #7F7CAC!important;
}
.darkmode-social {
background-color: #60C1CB!important;
}
}
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" align="center" style="border-spacing: 0px; color: #565656; font-family: 'Lato', sans-serif, Arial, Helvitica!important; background-color: #fafdfe; Margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 100%; max-width: 600px;" role="presentation">
<!-- START FOOTER -->
<tr>
<td style="padding: 0;">
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="darkmode-footer" width="100%" style="border-spacing: 0; background-color: #7F7CAC;" role="presentation">
<tr>
<td height="8" style="background-color: #21c6b8;"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding: 60px 10px 25px 10px; color: #ffffff; text-align: center; font-size: 16px;">
<p style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; padding: 10px 0 5px 0;">Lorum</p>
<p style="font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 5px;">Lorum</p>
<p style="font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 5px;">Lorum</p>
<p style="font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 5px;">Lorum</p>
<p style="font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 5px;">Lorum</p>
<p style="font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 5px;">Lorum</p>
<p style="font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 5px;">Lorum</p>
<p style="font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 20px;">Lorum</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="8" style="background-color: #21c6b8;"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<!-- END FOOTER -->
</table>
And here is a snippet of the button markup:
<tr>
<td align="left" style="padding-left: 10px;">
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" align="left" border="0" style="border-spacing: 0;" role="presentation">
<tr>
<td style="border-radius: 10px;" bgcolor="#60C1CB">
Lorum
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
I can add more markup if needed.
Outlook on Windows uses Word’s rendering engine and does not support media queries.
The only possible tweak regarding dark mode in this version of Outlook is to use VML gradients. You can read more about it here: https://webdesign.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-fix-outlook-dark-mode-problems--cms-37718
I have been scouring the internet for around 2 days now and I can't find anything about an issue. I am facing with extra space on the LEFT and RIGHT side of images in Outlook desktop.
The extra space, affects the ability of my table/columns to be displayed side by side. If I shorten the width of any cell/row/table to the exact width of that space (circled in red in image) they suddenly pop in side by side. It is this particular little space I can't figure out how to remove. It is like there is a default value set somewhere on something I am unaware of.
Sorry about some images not being uploaded anywhere, these ones weren't really important.
2 How it appears in every other email client.
3 How it is appearing in outlook only.
* {
margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
border-spacing: 0px;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
#media only screen and (max-device-width: 480px) {
table[class=responsive] {
width: 330px !important;
}
}
#media only screen and (max-device-width: 480px) {
table[class=left] {
width: 330px !important;
}
}
#media only screen and (max-device-width: 480px) {
table[class=right] {
width: 330px !important;
}
}
#media only screen and (max-device-width: 480px) {
img {
width: 100% !important;
}
}
p {
padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px;
}
a {
color: #333333;
}
a:visited {
color: #000000;
}
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<meta content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type">
<meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type">
<meta content="IE=edge" http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible">
<meta content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" name="viewport">
</head>
<body style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">
<!-- CENTER TABLE -->
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td align="center">
<table width="660" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="responsive">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><img src="10324612_ptgray.jpg" align="left" style="vertical-align: top; display:inline-block;"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#666666" height="50">
<p style="text-align: center; color: #FFFFFF; font-size: 24px; line-height: 24px;"><b>THE JULY ISSUE OF <em>PHYSICS TODAY</em> IS AVAILABLE</b><br></p>
</td>
</tr>
<!-- SPACER -->
<tr>
<td height="20px"> </td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#EEEEEE">
<td>
<table class="left" width="220" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left">
<tr border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left">
<td border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/BVa1S.png" width="220" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" style="vertical-align: top; display: block; max-width: 100%;"></td>
</tr>
</table>
<table class="right" width="440" border="0" cellspacing="0" align="right">
<tr>
<td>
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prevent contamination from external influences. Options available.</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<!-- SPACER -->
<tr>
<td height="20px"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border: 1px solid #CCCCCC;">
<a href="#">
<table class="left" width="438" border="0" cellspacing="0" align="left">
<tr>
<td valign="middle" height="287">
<p style="font-size: 50px; line-height: 50px; text-align: center; padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;">View the November Issue Online</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<table class="right" width="220" border="0" cellspacing="0" align="right">
<tr>
<td><img src="pt-cover.jpg" style="vertical-align: top; display: block;"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</a>
</td>
</tr>
<!-- SPACER -->
<tr>
<td height="20px"> </td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#EEEEEE">
<td>
<table class="left" width="220" border="0" cellspacing="0" align="left">
<tr>
<td><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/BVa1S.png" width="220" height="220" style="vertical-align: top; display: block;"></td>
</tr>
</table>
<table class="right" width="440" border="0" cellspacing="0" align="right">
<tr>
<td>
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prevent contamination from external influences. Options available.</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<!-- SPACER -->
<tr>
<td height="20px"> </td>
</tr>
<tr style="color: #000000; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; text-align: center;">
<td>
<tr>
<td>
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<p style="border-left: 5px solid #C8544B;">Author or Department</p>
</td>
</tr>
<!-- SPACER -->
<tr>
<td height="20px"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
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<p style="border-left: 5px solid #C8544B;">Author or Department</p>
</td>
</tr>
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<tr>
<td height="20px"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
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<p style="border-left: 5px solid #C8544B;">Author or Department</p>
</td>
</tr>
<!-- SPACER -->
<tr>
<td height="20px"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
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<p style="border-left: 5px solid #C8544B;">Author or Department</p>
</td>
</tr>
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<tr>
<td height="20px"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
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</td>
</tr>
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</tr>
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<tr>
<td height="20px"> </td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#EEEEEE">
<td>
<table class="left" width="220" border="0" cellspacing="0" align="left">
<tr>
<td><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/BVa1S.png" width="220" style="vertical-align: top; display: block;"></td>
</tr>
</table>
<table class="right" width="440" border="0" cellspacing="0" align="right">
<tr>
<td>
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<p style="color: #000000; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">KNF double-diaphragm, oil-free pumps are designed for transporting and evacuating costly, high purity, rare and/or dangerous gases. The back-up safety diaphragm ensures ultra-low leak rates of <6×10^-6 L/sec, while other safeguards
prevent contamination from external influences. Options available.</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<!-- SPACER -->
<tr>
<td height="20px"> </td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#EEEEEE" style="color: #000000; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; text-align: center;">
<td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
<td height="20px"> </td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#EEEEEE" style="color: #000000; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; text-align: center;">
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</tr>
</table>
<!-- CENTER TABLE -->
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
According to my test and search, it not img's reason, might be table.
You could refer to the below code:
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="40" width="238" border="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0; font-family: 'HelveticaNeue-CondensedBold', 'Arial Narrow', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; max-width:238px; color: #ffffff; width:238px;height: 40px; mso-table-lspace:0pt; mso-table-rspace:0pt; background-color: #f2f2f2;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td height="40" width="22" align="left">
<p style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;margin:0;">
<a href="#" style="border: 0; text-decoration: none; color: #ffffff;" target="_blank">
<img height="40" src="ctaleftgrey.jpg" style="width: 22px; margin: 0; border: 0; padding: 0; text-decoration: none; height: 40px;" width="22" />
</a>
</p>
</td>
<td height="40" width="180" align="left">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="40" width="180" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0; border: 0; padding: 0; font-family: 'HelveticaNeue-CondensedBold', 'Arial Narrow', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; color: #ffffff; height: 40px; background-color: #ec6608; mso-table-lspace:0pt; mso-table-rspace:0pt; " valign="middle">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td height="40" style="height: 40px; font-family: 'HelveticaNeue-CondensedBold', 'Arial Narrow', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; color: #ffffff; background-color: #ec6608; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; line-height: 16px;">
<p style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;margin:0;">
Text goes here
</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
<td height="40" width="36" align="left">
<p style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;margin:0;">
<a href="#" target="_blank">
<img height="40" src="ctarightgrey.jpg" style="width: 36px; margin: 0; border: 0; padding: 0; text-decoration: none; height: 40px;" width="36" />
</a>
</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</body>
For more information, please refer to this link:
Outlook table spacing in HTML email - no usual tricks working
Table style border- outlook 2010 adds an extra space
Hello I am trying to make two tables (one with an image) horizontal on the same line. I want it to be so when the screen changes to mobile, the table on the left goes on top of the right one vertically.
<table style="display: inline-block" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"
border="0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="top"
style="background-color: #ffffff; padding-bottom: 0">
<img src="#"
style=" height: auto; display: block; border: 0;">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<table style="display: inline-block" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"
border="0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top"
style="background-color: #ffffff; padding-bottom: 0">
<p style="font-size: 16px; line-height:20px; color:#043667; margin:10px 0; font-family: Arial, Narrow, Helvetica, sans-serif">
<span style="color: #9d0059; font-weight: bold">text1,</span> text 2”
<br><span style="color: #9d0059"><i>-HAEGARDA Advocate</i></span>
</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
You're on the right track, but you need to get rid of the width:100%, otherwise two of them won't fit side by side in the same line!
Also, I'd use display:inline-table rather than display:inline-block.
table {
display: inline-table;
border-spacing: 0;
border: 0;
}
th,td {
padding: 0
}
<table>
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="top" style="background-color: #ffffff; padding-bottom: 0">
<img src="#" style=" height: auto; display: block; border: 0;">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<table>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top" style="background-color: #ffffff; padding-bottom: 0">
<p style="font-size: 16px; line-height:20px; color:#043667; margin:10px 0; font-family: Arial, Narrow, Helvetica, sans-serif">
<span style="color: #9d0059; font-weight: bold">text1,</span> text 2”
<br><span style="color: #9d0059"><i>-HAEGARDA Advocate</i></span>
</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
You can use the flexbox layout to accomplish that. Firstly, you can put both tables inside a div and set the div display property to flex (style="display: flex;"). This will put both tables in-line with each other.
To make them stack vertically on mobile or smaller devices, you can set the div flex-wrap property to wrap. This will cause the tables to stack vertically. Check the code below, most importantly the div tag.
<div style="display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap;">
<table>
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="top" style="background-color: #ffffff; padding-bottom: 0">
<img src="#" style=" height: auto; display: block; border: 0;">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<table>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top" style="background-color: #ffffff; padding-bottom: 0">
<p style="font-size: 16px; line-height:20px; color:#043667; margin:10px 0; font-family: Arial, Narrow, Helvetica, sans-serif">
<span style="color: #9d0059; font-weight: bold">text1,</span> text 2”
<br><span style="color: #9d0059"><i>-HAEGARDA Advocate</i></span>
</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
My application sends an HTML e-mail to users. When I test it as a plain HTML file, it looks ok in various browsers (Firefox, IE, Chrome, Safari, Android phone browsers). It also displays fine in webmail clients that I Have tested (Gmail, Yahoo mail).
But when I view the message in Microsoft Outlook, the layout is messed up. Specifically - the right hand icon is not top aligned, but displayed much lower than the left icon. This is the HTML code:
<div style="width: 100%; margin: 0px auto; background-color: #333; border: 0px solid #333; color: #FFF">
<!-- Logos -->
<div style="background-color: #333; border: 0px solid #333; color: #FFF; padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-left: 2px">
<img src="MyLogo.png" height="30px" width="30px" alt="Logo" border="0">
<img src="Image_1.png" height="27px" width="120px" align="right" alt="recommend" border="0">
</div>
<!-- Title -->
<div style="text-align: left; font-size:12px; padding-left: 2px; font-weight: bold;">
<span style="font-size:12px; padding-left: 2px; font-weight: bold;">Comment line - should be left aligned</span>
</div>
<div style="text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase; color: #DDD; font-size: 12px;font-weight: bold;">
<span><b>My Title Should Be Centered</b></span>
</div>
</div>
You may need to do more research on html email design. It is not the same as html for the web and should be table based instead of divs. Here is a basic example of how your example code should look:
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#333333">
<tr>
<td>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td align="left">
<img style="margin: 0; border: 0; padding: 0; display: block;" src="MyLogo.png" width="30px" height="10px" alt="Logo">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" style="font-size:12px; padding-left: 2px; font-weight: bold; color:#DDDDDD;">
Comment line - should be left aligned
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td align="right" valign="top">
<img style="margin: 0; border: 0; padding: 0; display: block;" src="MyLogo.png" width="120px" height="27px" alt="recommend">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" colspan="2" style="text-transform: uppercase; color: #DDDDDD; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold;">
My Title Should Be Centered
</td>
</tr>
</table>
A couple of good introduction to email design resources:
Campaign Monitor
Reach Customers Online
You should really be building your email using responsive techniques as well.
Here is a very good article that describes the method :
http://blog.booking.com/responsive-email.html
I am working on HTML email and trying to center a green TD in a white TR so that there's a 20px white margin on the left and right of the green box.
I tried setting TD width for the green portion and setting margin 0 auto but the green just expands to the width of the TR.
Tried putting in 2 more TDs to push the green TD into the center and that didn't work either.
Including the code snippet, am having trouble with the TR that has #a6d971.
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" width="600" height="" bgcolor="" style="margin: 0 auto;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="margin: 0 auto;">
<img width="600" height="23" padding="0" src="assets/graphic_scalloped_top.png" alt="" style="display: block;" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#fff" height="75">
<td valign="top" style="text-align:center;">
<p style="margin:0; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-top: 3px; color:#545d69; font-size: 24px; text-align:center; font-family: Arial, Helvetica;">
Regular sales happen every day
</p>
<p style="margin:0; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-top: 3px; color:#4bc1d6; font-size: 16px; text-align:center; font-family: Arial, Helvetica;">
9am - 11pm
</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#fff" height="75" padding="10">
<td bgcolor="#000" width="20"></td>
<td bgcolor="#a6d971" width="300" style="margin: 10;">
</td>
<td bgcolor="#000" width="20"></td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#fff">
<td valign="top">
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10" border="0" align="center" width="100%" bgcolor="#fff" style="">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td height="80" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; color: #555; background:url('assets/graphic_9am.png') no-repeat; background-position: 10% center; padding:10px; margin:0;">
<h3>Nine # Nine</h3>
<p>Fuel up! Dresses, tunics and other items including:</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="margin: 0 auto;">
<img width="600" height="23" padding="0" src="assets/graphic_scalloped_bottom.png" alt="" style="display: block;" />
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
Switch to DIV's and CSS, most emails client supports styles pretty well, you can use a DIV inside your TD element, it'll be easy to center or do other things you might want.
For Example
<tr style="background-color: white;">
<td style="background-color: green;">
<div style="background-color: purple; margin-right: 20px; margin-left: 20px;">Content Here</div>
</td>
</tr>
Also note if you use DIV's you can also avoid tables.
Hack on top of a hack.
<table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="border-left: 20px solid white; border-right: 20px solid white; background: green; color: white; text-align: center;">
This is stuff.
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
http://jsfiddle.net/zy6GU/
Incidentally, the same thing should work with a DIV:
<div style="border-left: 20px solid white; border-right: 20px solid white; background: green; color: white; text-align: center;">This is a DIV.</div>
http://jsfiddle.net/zy6GU/1/
If you HAVE to use tables, might as well abuse them a little:
<table><tr align="center">
<td width="50%">one</td>
<td style="background-color:green">two</td>
<td width="50%">three</td>
</tr></table>
http://jsfiddle.net/mblase75/yntfu/
I'm not a CSS expert but this works for me (with no extra tags) :
<table>
<tr style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid black;">
<td style="background-color: green; display: block; margin: 0 20px;">
<!-- Content -->
</td>
</tr>
</table>
What are you talking about 'for emails'? You mean an email address, like Email Me? If so you'd want some css that centers the link in the TD, or in combination with colspan on the TD.