I am new to creating emailers. I added strong tag after anchor tag, which removed underline from outlook but now it's coming in gmail. How to disable this for both, tried a lot and gave up!
my codes are
<strong>Getting Started with Our Services</strong>
gmail to gmail, outlook to outlook it's working, but when I send outlook to gmail or gmail to outlook, underline is coming in all the hyperlinks :(
There's nothing wrong with the line of code that you are using, however you can add !important if perhaps there is something in the embedded CSS (in the <style> section in the <head>).
I.e.
<strong>Getting Started with Our Services</strong>
However, I suspect your issue is with the fact that you are sending emails from one service to another. If you are forwarding emails, the format changes are difficult to predict. That is not the way to test the email. You need to send the email from the HTML directly. You can do that via your ESP, or via a service such as Putsmail (by Litmus).
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I wanted to create hyperlink that will direct it to compose page that similar to Google Mail link (as my example):
<li></li>
However, I tried other things but I cannot find same link for Yahoo Mail and Outlook...
Do you have guys idea? Thanks for the help.
Reason:
Instead of using "mailto:", we would like to have our users choose which mail program/app to use to compose personal message.
We have alternative options (like modal box with form and/or leave mailto as default hyperlink) but we end up to this flow that we think its good alternative option too.
Ok, For Reference of the others... Here's what I have found out. These are the hyperlinks that you can use instead of mailto:
For Google Mail
https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&to=your#email.com
For Yahoo Mail
https://compose.mail.yahoo.com/?to=your#email.com
For Outlook Mail / Hotmail
https://outlook.live.com/owa/?to=your#email.com&path=/mail/action/compose
I am attempting to create an HTML newsletter to send out. I have created the newsletter in Microsoft Publisher and exported it to HTML. I then open the HTML file and select all and paste it into a Gmail draft. In the preview, the newsletter looks great but when I send it to myself and receive it, Gmail completely breaks the formatting and pushes all the text below the image. When I tested this with my AOL email, the formatting was fine and the text was on top of the image where its supposed to be. I even tried using Mailchimp to code the newsletter and it also appeared to be fine but when I sent it to all my emails, Gmail was the only one that broke the format. The email looks perfect on AOL and even on my iPhone Mail App which is connected to my Gmail. What am I doing wrong?
It looks to me like the columns are being lined up wrong, but from the code you have sent this is probably the least of your worries. Creating a html email in Microsoft Publisher is a bad idea. You might be better using something like mailchimp's free builder and copying the html out of that (or even just sending from there)
I need to have a button in my outlook message that displays an image (inside the message itself) when clicked. I tried to put a HTML with Javascript handling onclick event, but scripts wont work inside outlook emails. What can I do to get it done?
Thanks
JavaScript does not run in emails, it would be a security risk (and an annoyance). You are actually very restricted on most clients, when I was styling a newsletter for a client I had to resort to table layouts.
The best you can do is put a link in the email which will redirect the user to a web page.
I have an html form that I'm sending to external customers so they can fill up and send it back to me.
The problem occurs when they click the submit button on the form.
For some reason in windows 7 64 bit, with outlook 2010 and explorer 9, mailto action doesn't work for me.
An empty outlook message is displayed and only the subject and recipients are added.
There is no attachment and no body text.
When I change the default browser to FF I receive the text I wanted in the body section instead as an attachment (postdata.att).
I can't use server code cause the html form is sent by outlook to external customers, so asp/php/cgi is irrelevant for me.
The external customers have no access to the organization's intranet and since the html form is sent as an email attachment, it's also not hosted on an internet server.
Does anyone has a solution?
Thanks,
mailto action doesn't work for me.
mailto depends on specific combinations of correctly configured browsers and email clients. It is not suitable for pubic use in an action attribute as support is too poor.
Use a server side process instead. Note that form support in HTML email is also poor, so you should link to a form hosted on the web.
I can't use server code cause the html form is sent by outlook to external customers, so asp/php/cgi is irrelevant for me.
You need to set up a public facing webserver.
So I have an html email that I am creating for my company for an email campaign we are going to be sending soon for an organization we represent. It contains 2 primary links, one to email a person at the organization we represent, and one to go to the landing page on the site of the organization. The landing page link works fine, the mailto: link does not when the email is viewed from Hotmail. It works on other clients besides Hotmail including Gmail and Outlook.
This is not because the computer which I am testing on does not have an email client installed. It has Outlook 2010 installed and registered as the mailto application. When mailto links are clicked on other sites (not hotmail) they work great...outlook launches a new message window as it should and fills in the subject and email. When we went to test on Hotmail, it shows the mailto link in the status bar, but no action occurs when you click the link. It's as if the link was not a link at all.
This is the link we are trying to use: (edited slightly for privacy)
<div class="button">Email a Resident Advisor</div>
This is placed within an html table cell. It has some basic css styling applied (all embedded in the html email itself). The button class is just designed to make the link stand out in the email...give it a red border and bold the link.
To be much more clear:
Works:
Gmail - IE9, Chrome, Firefox
Outlook - worked.
Does not work:
Hotmail - All browsers tried
The email was sent using the preview function of CampaignMonitor (handled by our QA guy, I don't have access to it as I'm rather new to the company).
I just need to figure out a way to make this work. Thanks in advance.
Two other programmer and I spent 2 days dealing with this problem earlier this week. I don't have the relevant links handy, but the long and short of the story is that this is a known issue and currently unresolved.
mailto: links will under no circumstance, work in Hotmail, they are removed or something.
We ultimately ended up adding copy instructing recipients to email foo#mail.com in lieu of clicking the link.
Here's a possible solution I found at http://windowsxp.mvps.org/hmposturl.htm that I modified for my purposes. It would require sending unique creative with a custom link to only your Hotmail recipients but it seems to work for me. Here's the href string I used:
http://www.hotmail.msn.com/secure/start?action=compose&to=email#domain.com&subject=My Subject Line&body=Email Body
This is a common problem with most webmail based systems. mailto: doesn't invoke them. Google mailto hotmail and you will find answers for Windows and for specific browsers. I think this will set it up for you
http://email.about.com/od/windowslivehotmailtips/qt/How_to_Make_Windows_Live_Hotmail_Your_Default_Email_Program.htm
Just add target='_blank'...use the 'a' html tag as...
<a href='mailto:Your MAILTO ID' target='_blank'>SOME Support</a>
This works in hotmail client, but it launch new browser instance additionally.
Known problem, I can confirm, is not working on Hotmail web mail only, rest of them work fine, we had the same problem here and we give up trying.
If you really really want that the only way is to use JavaScript, onClick change window location but that introduces a new dependency: JavaScript.