I am writing an emailed newsletter, and need to set an image as the footer, with a few clickable links over it. I have figured it out using both HTML and CSS, but no matter where I searched I could not find a way to do this strictly using HTML. Can anyone help me out?
<!--Footer-->
<tr id="footer">
<td id="footer" style="font-family: 'Titillium Web', sans-serif;;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;background-image: url" img url"" templates\uuaemail-foot.jpg";padding-left:="" 20px;padding-right:="" 20px;padding-top:="" 10px;padding-bottom:="" 20px;"="">
<table height="101" width="602">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td id="footer" style="font-size: 10px;color:white;" height="95" valign="top" width="600" align="center"><p><br></p><p class="style3"><strong><span style="font-size: 12px;">admissions.rutgers.edu<br></span></strong></p><p class="style3"><span class="style7"><span style="font-size: 8px;"><strong> University Undergraduate Admissions</strong>, Operations Center<br>©2017 , an equal opportunity, affirmative action institution.</span></span></p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
Is what I currently have (with CSS styling)
update: My issue is that the email is widely sent to Ms Outlook 2016, which I have both heard and seen through testing that it does not process CSS styles very well. When I opened this code in Outlook, it showed the CSS styling commands at the top of the message, and did not apply it at all.
CSS is just an organized way for the the stylesheet. Although not recommended, you can use inline styles with just the HTML to achieve almost everything, if you post your code, may be some of us can suggest a definite answer.
HTML is a markup language, it does neither add functonality or style by itself.
There are tags there the browser places default values.
Eg.
<footer> </footer>
The most browser add automaticly:
footer {
display: block;
}
Or the h tag
<h1></h1>
The most browser set the default values like:
h1 {
display: block;
font-size: 2em;
margin-top: 0.67em;
margin-bottom: 0.67em;
margin-left: 0;
margin-right: 0;
font-weight: bold;
}
Every other style change has to be done by your self with css. You can also work with inline stlyes like:
<h1 style="color:red;"> A red big text </h1>
A good way to find more about default values and inline styles is: https://www.w3schools.com/
You want to use background image in your email and you want it rendered in outlook. Use this site http://backgrounds.cm/ to generate code for background image that will work in all outlook desktop versions. Then you can add links etc. over the image.
Also, please don't use same id more than once in your code. You can assign an ID to one element only. To cover multiple elements, use class attribute.
Related
Is it possible to create a html banner ad with inline css animations? I just need a div with my code that they will insert in their page, so the animation and styles need to be inline. i just need to animate an image of a button into the div so it looks like it's sliding in. I'm using relative positioning to layout the elements so far. Is this possible? Here is my code in the layout that I will need in the end. I need the div "button" to animate up from the bottom and land at bottom: 30px like it is now.
<div style="width:160px; height:600px; text-align:center; position: relative;">
<img src="images/Agent-Ad_Crush-160x600_b_110716.jpg" alt="Broadview Networks Generate New Leads And Crush The End Of The Year!" width="160" height="600" border="0" />
<div class="words" alt="" width="160" height="180"style="position: absolute; bottom: 150px; left: 11px;">
<img src="images/Agent-Ad_Crush-160x600_b_110716-words.jpg">
</div>
<div class="button" alt="" width="116" height="32"style="position: absolute; bottom: 30px; left: 22px;">
<img src="images/Agent-Ad_Crush-160x600_b_110716-button.jpg">
</div>
</div>
If you're using just HTML and inline CSS then the answer is no. Specifically, #keyframes can't be defined in inline styles. They can be defined in a <style> tag (as #Ryan Gee points out) but <style> tags have to be in the head, which rules it out for a banner ad.
Now, just to complicate things, at one point HTML5 introduced a scoped attribute that would let you use the <style> tag in the body, but support has since been dropped from most of the browsers.
If someone knows of an ingenious workaround I'd be very interested and impressed!
One option is to just use an animated .gif, if you're not depending on the user to click before the animation begins.
That way you wouldn't have all that overhead of html.
Another option would be, depending on their access on their host, to provide them with a fully qualified web page with the animation, that they can upload to their host. (Or, you can host the page)
Then, the div you provide along with the page, would contain an iframe that links to the web page, that renders the animation. This option might not be so responsive in terms of ui sizing.
You could use the <style> tag, but it's not advisable. See here for an explanation.
I have an article page that I am making small CSS changes, such as margin and font size, to. My code has to be able to be supported by Internet Explorer 8 and above. The problem is, I am using some CSS selectors that IE8 does not support. How do I write my CSS code without using the :not selector?
HTML for sample article page
<div class="entry">
<h3 class="social-title>Share This Article </h3>
<div class="social-content>
<table>
<td><img class="" src="twitter.png"><span class="">Twitter</span></td>
<td><img class="" src="facebook.png"><span class="">Twitter</span></td>
</table>
</div>
<!-- The article would start here -->
<p class="category_row"><h1 class="category-title>Lifestyle</h1></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 13.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" style="float: left;" src="example.jpg">Article goes starts here...</p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 13.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Second paragraph</p>
Third paragraph
</div>
CSS I am using
.entry p:not(.category_row) {
font-size: 14px;
line-height:22px;
}
img (margin: 10px)
So far example, if I wanted to add margin to the image that is in the article section, how would I write the CSS code so that it only affects the image in the article section and not the images in the <div class="social-content">? Without using :not?
Also how would I write CSS code to change the font-size of the article to a font size of 14px and line height of 22px? Without affecting everything else above (not in the article section) ?
Sorry if this is confusing, but I will clarify more if need be!
You will need to be more verbose if you want to support older browsers. The joy of the newer syntaxes is we are able to be more pithy, but if you have IE 8 in your supported list of browsers, you'll need to start with styling more general selectors and then overriding those styles in more precise selectors.
.entry p {
font-size: 14px;
line-height:22px;
}
.entry p.category_row {
font-size: XXpx;
line-height:XXpx;
}
I don't know where your article section begins from your markup. Figure out what is the most logical container for image would be, and then constrain your selector with it. Note article is an HTML5 element, so you would be remiss not to use it:
<article>
<img ... />
</article>
And article images would be styled with this simple selector: article img { ... }
If you want to use article with IE 8, be sure to include this: https://code.google.com/p/html5shiv/
Why don't you wrap the actual content in it's own div?
<p class="category-row">....</p>
<div class="post-content"><!--- maybe use article tag here -->
<p>First paragraph....</p>
<p>Second Paragraph</p>
</div>
Then you can just reference the p's like
.entry .post-content p {
....
}
Also, "category row" doesn't look like it should be a paragraph?
If it is a "row" a div or a span would be more appropriate.
If it contains nothing but the h1 you might as well scrap it and leave the h1 be there without a wrapper.
If you use the article tag (or any of the other new html5 semantic tags) include html5shiv, as Chris said in his answer.
I spent a little while trying to figure out how to achieve the following effect without using a table but couldn't figure it out: http://jsfiddle.net/sKFzA/
CSS :
.header{width:100%;font:25px Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;}
.titleCol{width:99%;}
.dateCol{vertical-align:bottom;white-space:nowrap;}
.dateText{font-size:12px;}
HTML :
<table class="header">
<tr>
<td class="titleCol">This is the blog title</td>
<td class="dateCol"> <span> </span><span class="dateText">1/23/2012</span>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
To explain it, I have a blog title and a blog date. The title could be long and wrap. At the end of the last line, wrapped or not, I want the blog date to be aligned to the right.
So I have two questions. Is there any reason not to use a table for this? If so, how would you achieve it without assuming static font sizes?
CSS has properties that allow any element to behave like specific components of a table.
http://cssdeck.com/labs/rjiesryc
<header>
<h1>This is the blog title</h1>
<time datetime="2012-01-23">1/23/2012</time>
</header>
CSS
header {
display: table;
width: 100%;
}
header h1, header time {
display: table-cell;
}
header time {
/*vertical-align: bottom;*/
}
With the help of cimmanon and the others, I've gathered that:
The only reason's not to use a table here is because layout is not technically a table's intended purpose and also by not using a table you can separate your layout (CSS) from your markup (HTML). However, if I were to use a table, I am not aware of of any negative effects.
There doesn't seem to be a good solution to this exact layout without the concept of table, but my table solution can be achieved without using an HTML table by applying styles to display other elements as the table. So I replaced my table elements with divs. The span with the space before the date allows the smaller sized date to stay aligned to the title's baseline without having to hard-code line height's or font sizes. So if the font sizes change, I don't have to worry about updating any other magic numbers hard-coded around them.
http://jsfiddle.net/K35gT/
HTML
<div class="header">
<div class="titleCol">This is the blog title</div>
<div class="dateCol">
<span> </span><span class="dateText">1/23/2012</span>
</div>
</div>
Styles:
.header{display:table;width:100%;font:25px Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;}
.titleCol{display:table-cell;width:99%;}
.dateCol{display:table-cell;vertical-align:bottom;white-space:nowrap;}
.dateText{font-size:12px;}
You do not need tables at all, simply block elements with the right styles.
If it was my website, I would do this:
<header>
<h1>This is the blog title</h1>
<time datetime="2012-01-23">1/23/2012</time>
</header>
Combined with this CSS:
header {position:relative; width:100%; font:25px Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;}
header > h1 {margin:0px;}
header > time {display:block; font-size:12px; text-align:right;}
You can decide if you want to use HTML5 elements, or general elements and if you want to hook in class names or not. Here's the jsFiddle for above: http://jsfiddle.net/sKFzA/13/
Something like this? I hope i got you right.
HTML:
<div id="titleRow">This is the blog title</div>
<div id="dateText"><span id="spandate">1/23/2012</span></div>
CSS:
#titleRow{width:80%; height: 25px; font:25px Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
float:left;text-align: left;}
#dateText{width:20%; height: 25px; font-size:12px;float:left; text-align: right; position: relative;}
#spandate { position: absolute; bottom: 0; right: 0;}
See here: http://jsfiddle.net/sKFzA/31/
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I am trying to learn CSS, so far it seems that changing HTML to CSS is more of just changing font, colors, text size, tables and background to some CSS statements.
My problem is I am not sure what HTML I still need and what to remove.
Where do I put the CSS stuff?
Basic HTML trying to learn with this easy one:
<html>
<head>
<title>CSS practice</title>
</head>
<body style="background-color:white;">
<table border="1" width="990" bgcolor="#99CCFF">
<tr>
<td width="990"><p align="center"><font face="Arial Black" size="6" color="#680000">DDDD</font></td>
</tr>
</table>
<table border="0" width=990 bgcolor="#000000" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td width="990"><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Arial" size="2"><b> Personal Portfolio</b> </font></td>
</tr>
</table>
<table border="0" width=990 cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td width="18%" bgcolor="#99CCFF" valign="top">
<p style="margin-left: 20"><b><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#000000">
Home <br><br>
About Me <br><br>
Outreach <br><br>
Contact Me <br><br>
Experience <br><br>
Education <br><br>
Skills <br><br>
<td width="61%" valign="top">
<blockquote>
<p><br>
<font face="Arial" size="5">Welcome</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"> Aspiring CSS programmer </font></p>
<img src="me.jpg" alt="US"/>
</blockquote><br><br>
<p align="center"><font face="Arial" size="1">© COPYRIGHT 2012 ALL RIGHTS
RESERVED </font></td>
<table border="0" width="990" bgcolor="#000000" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td width="100%"><font size="1"> </font></td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Start from scratch. Building semantic HTML is about focusing only on content, and you will find out that its a lot easier than make the ol'table HTML.
Table-less, semantic HTML
Your new HTML should look like this:
<html>
<head>
<title>CSS practice</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css-file.css" type="text/css">
</head>
<body>
<span>DDDD</span>
<h1>Personal Portfolio</h1>
<nav>
Home
About Me
Outreach
Contact Me
Experience
Education
Skills
</nav>
<p>Welcome <span>Aspiring CSS programmer</span></p>
<img src="me.jpg" alt="US"/>
<span>© COPYRIGHT 2012 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED</span>
</body>
</html>
See? Just the contents, nothing about styles at all. Much simpler!
So after that you can start moving on CSS with your new separated css-file.css (look the css declaration inside the head tag).
CSS styles
CSS is just about finding paths to your HTML elements, and then styling it. It's really easy.
For example, you could spot and style your title like:
h1 {
font-family: "Verdana";
font-weight: bold;
}
... your menu buttons like:
nav a {
color: blue;
text-style: italic;
}
nav a means you want to style every a tag living inside a nav tag, leaving unstyled the a ones outside of a nav tag.
Well... and this is a path! Build your paths freely, as long they meet their respective targets (the HTML elements).
Classes and IDs
Every tag in HTML can have both a class and an id attribute. Apply them freely into your HTML tags to help you spot your elements. Use them like this:
<span class="class_name" id="id_name">content</span>
In your CSS, you can refer to a class by putting a dot before the name, like:
nav a.class_name {
color: blue;
text-style: italic;
}
So the styles will be applied to every a tag that has the class-name class, living inside a nav tag.
Id's will work the same way, but in CSS you refer to them by placing a hash (#) instead of the dot we used for class.
That's it, you have already begun. :)
I personally would recommend you start from here: How to make websites.
And remember... use LOTS of Google.
You'll be there in no time.
css should handle size/position/color/font -- in short, anything that's not structure. w3schools is a good resource.
Use jsfiddle to try out test implementations.
Here's a rough cut, I did with just a few minutes playing around my fiddle
html:
<html>
<head>
<title>CSS practice</title>
</head>
<body>
<div class='header'>DDDD</div>
<div class='subHeader'>Personal Portfolio</div>
<div class='links'>
<ul>
<li> Home </li>
<li> About Me </li>
<li> Outreach </li>
<li> Contact Me </li>
<li> Experience </li>
<li><a href="education.html"> Education </a</li>
<li> Skills </li>
</ul>
</div>
<p class='welcome'>Welcome</p>
<p class='welcome2'>Aspiring CSS programmer</p>
<img src="me.jpg" alt="US" />
<div class='copyright'>© COPYRIGHT 2012 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED</div>
</body>
</html>
css:
:root{
background-color:white;
font-family: Arial;
}
.header {
border: 1px;
width: 990px;
background-color: #99CCFF;
text-align: center;
font-size: 16pt;
color: #680000;
}
.subHeader {
background-color: black;
color: white;
font-weight: bold;
}
.links {
width: 200px;
background-color: #99CCFF;
font-size: 12pt;
padding-left: 20px;
float: left;
}
.welcome {
font-size: 15pt;
}
.welcome2 {
font-size:12pt;
}
.copyright {
float: left;
width: 990px;
text-align: center;
}
The general concept is that CSS replaces ALL of the styling information in HTML, so that HTML should only be there as a "markup" language which only provides data structure to your content.
All of the attributes that refers to color/size/position etc. should be remade as CSS statements, and a class added to those HTML elements instead.
For example, the table tag would change to <table class="mytable">.
If I understand your question correctly, you are trying to replace the styles in your HTML with CSS.
This is where you add your css (note that I am giving examples, they might nor be syntactically correct)
<head>
<title>CSS practice</title>
<style>
//Your CSS styles - e.g.:
.body {
attribute1: value1,
attribute2: value2
}
</style>
</head>
And, remove all the style, border, width, etc. attributes inside HTML tags - basically anything that adds any sort of styling, like height, color, font, width, border, etc. would be moved into the CSS code.
Basically, you almost don't need any attribute on HTML tags anymore, except for id and class, and sometimes style for inline styling (that is not good but can be handy if you are in trouble and have no time).
Then border, width, background-color, font size and color, etc... are all managed through CSS, plus hundreds of other things.
For basic stuff on unique elements, you can use ID attribute, for elements repeated in the page, use class.
In CSS, refer to IDs with
#myID{ color: red;}
, to class with
.myClass{ color: red; }
and to elements with the element name, like
div { color: red; }
Good luck, have fun :)
w3schools as mentioned above is a really good resource. Try to put your css code in a separate "css" file. Also if you just want to see how things interact, developer tools on the browser comes in really handy, if u r on windows/linux using firefox or chrome u can try Ctrl+F12.
Hope this helps.
Im going mad trying to figure out why the title link (in the left) and the other links in the nav bar (right) are not the same height.
The difference is subtle in Safari, but bigger in IE6.
Im missing something in the css reset of H1?
SAFARI
alt text http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/702/safari.png
IE6
alt text http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/870/ie6.png
The HTML
<div id="navbar">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td align="left">
<h1>title</h1>
</td>
<td align="right">
about
answers
contact
<input type="text" name="search" value="" id="searchbox"> <a class="color4" href="sss">search</a>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
and the css
#navbar a, h1 a { padding: 3px 5px; vertical-align: middle;}
h1 has been reset
h1 {margin:0;padding:0;}
h1 {font-size:100%;font-weight:normal;}
h1 a { padding: 3px 5px; vertical-align: middle;}
sets a style for a link within an h1, not the h1 itself.
h1 {margin:0;padding:0;}
h1 {font-size:100%;font-weight:normal;}
sets the style for an h1. So the styles for the link still stand, they have not been overwritten.
I think it's because the text input in the right table cell is causing that table cell to "stretch" a little taller than the left table cell (and it will be slightly different on different browsers depending how large they draw the text input box) and thus throwing off the alignment a bit. Try vertical-align:bottom; on the left table cell.
There are some very subtle differences in the way different browsers render styling. This is just another example of it.
To see a REALLY good example of this, try looking at the Acid 2 test in each browser to see some of the differences.
First, if this happens cross-browser, use Firebug in Firefox to tell you where an element's style rules are coming from.
Second, I'd check the line height on the <a> and <h1> as well as the margins on the <a>.