I recently started using the foundation framework with email newsletters. As I can see I have to go back to the good old tables. I cannot understand why I have so big problems of centering/align a logo?
The logo is keep hanging to the left, instead of center. I have set a border on the tables so it is eaiser to see.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" />
<title>A title</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/foundation-emails.css" />
<style type="text/css">
</style>
</head>
<body>
<!-- <style> -->
<table class="body" data-made-with-foundation>
<tr>
<td class="float-center" align="center" valign="top" style="border: 1px solid pink">
<center>
<table class="container" align="center" style="border: 1px solid green">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<table class="row">
<tbody>
<tr>
<th class="small-12 large-12 columns first">
<table>
<tr>
<th>
<img src="https://i1.wp.com/1stwebdesigner.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/line-art-logo.jpg?fit=600%2C400&resize=350%2C200" style="border:1px solid red" align="center">
</th>
<th class="expander"></th>
</tr>
</table>
</th>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</center>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Finally after 2 hours searcing I found the answer here:
https://foundation.zurb.com/emails/docs/alignment.html
First of all, your document (!DOCTYPE) IS NOT XHTML. You need to use transitional or HTML
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
or
<!DOCTYPE html>
After that, you need:
<img src="https://i1.wp.com/1stwebdesigner.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/line-art-logo.jpg?fit=600%2C400&resize=350%2C200" style="border:1px solid red; margin: 0 auto;">
align="center" is NOT a valid HTML5 property, it is valid in HTML4+
Related
EDIT: The following outlined example works in thunderbird as well.
I'm currently learning how to create emails using foundation for emails. What I currently want to do is to create an "expanded button" within a grid. I've come up with the following HTML by referencing the examples outlined for grid here and examples outlined for expanded button here.
The following is what I came up with, my thinking based on what I have read thus far is that I have to add the "expanded button" within the column of my grid, so I have the following HTML:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" />
<title>Title</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/foundation-emails.css" />
</head>
<table align="center" class="container">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<table class="row">
<tbody>
<tr>
<th class="columns first last">
<table>
<tr>
<table class="row">
<tbody>
<tr>
<column>
<table class="button expanded">
<tr>
<td>
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<center data-parsed><a href="#"
align="center"
class="float-center">Reset Password</a>
</center>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td class="expander"></td>
</tr>
</table>
<table class="button small-expanded">
<tr>
<td>
<table>
<tr>
<td>Expand small only</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</column>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<th class="expander"></th>
</tr>
</table>
</th>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</html>
It looks exactly as I expect it to look like in Firefox, however it looks incorrect in outlook. For example, this is what it appears as in Firefox:
Here is what it looks like in outlook when I send an email:
For context, I'm trying to create an typical "Reset Password" email template. Do note that I have run the HTML through the CSS inliner located here, as instructed by the documentation.
This issue is resolved in version 2.3.1, but their official download link was not updated to serve the latest version of the code, hence I spent time trying to resolve an issue that was already rectified. While the button is now expanded, there is an issue with the anchor link in outlook.
See https://github.com/foundation/foundation-emails/issues/415 for more information.
everyone,
I have designed a quick html doc that will be incorporated in Outlook (hence the need to have inline styles inside the HTML). Everything is looking fine on Chrome and on Safari, but IE11 is showing the below problem. The table border is messed up, like it has two colours inside it, instead of only one, like the good version on Chrome. Also, Firefox seems to be ignoring the table set for the colour and showing a beveled version of it... Does anyone have an idea about this? I'm pasting example image and my code below.
image depicting bug in IE against good version on Chrome
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Xmas Card</title>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"/>
</head>
<body style="margin: 0; padding: 60px 300px 60px 300px; background-color:#d2d2d1">
<table>
<tr>
<div style="text-align:center; margin-bottom:20px">
<span style="font-family:sans-serif; font-size:10pt">If you have problems opening this message, read online here</span>
</div>
</tr>
</table>
<table border="8" rules="none" bordercolor="#8a7e70" cellpadding="0px" cellspacing="0" align="center" width="600px">
<tr style="background-color:#ffffff" align="center">
<td>
<img src="#" alt="corners top">
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color:#ffffff" align="center">
<td>
<img src="#" alt="logo">
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color:#ffffff" align="center">
<td>
<h1 style="font-size:24pt; font-family:sans-serif; color:#aa212f; text-align:center">Season's Greetings</h1>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color:#ffffff" align="center">
<td>
<img src="#" alt="Xmas branches">
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color:#ffffff" align="center">
<td>
<img src="/#" alt="button">
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color:#ffffff" align="center">
<td>
<img src="#" alt="corners bottom">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Thank you so much for your kindness.
When you want to set the table's border attribute, you should keep in mind that the border-style is required.
The definition and usage of CSS border you could refer to the following W3C document:https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_border.asp
I suggest that you could set the border-color, border-style and border-width separately like:
<table style="border-color: #8a7e70; border-style: solid; border-width:8px;" rules="none" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center" width="600">...</table>
Or you could write three attributes together:
<table style="border:8px solid #8a7e70;" rules="none" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center" width="600">...</table>
the running result in Chrome and IE
The problem that I am having is while designing an email to be sent to users the border of the HTML table is not disappearing even though it is set to 0 and so leaves horrible white lines through areas which are menu to be solid blue colors, below is my HTML code!
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<table width="889" border="0" >
<tr>
<td>
<table width="882" border="0" bordercolor="#0099FF">
<tr>
<td colspan="4" bgcolor="#0099FF"> </td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#0099FF">
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#0099FF"> </td>
<td colspan="2" rowspan="2">content</td>
<td bgcolor="#0099FF"> </td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#CCCCCC">
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Add cellspacing="0" to your second table:
<table width="882" border="0" bordercolor="#0099FF" cellspacing="0">
Probably cellspacing="0" fixes these lines?
I have a JSF2 application which uses primefaces 3.0.
When I include 404 error code or 500 error code in my web.xml
<error-page>
<error-code>404</error-code>
<location>/faces/404.xhtml</location>
</error-page>
I get the following exception.
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.sun.faces.context.flash.ELFlash.doLastPhaseActions(ELFlash.java:607)
at com.sun.faces.context.ExternalContextImpl.responseFlushBuffer(ExternalContextImpl.java:857)
at com.sun.faces.application.view.JspViewHandlingStrategy.buildView(JspViewHandlingStrategy.java:155)
at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RenderResponsePhase.execute(RenderResponsePhase.java:100)
at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.Phase.doPhase(Phase.java:101)
at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.render(LifecycleImpl.java:139)
at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:410)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.service(StandardWrapper.java:1534)
How to suppress this exception? Am I missing something on my exception handling?
Here is the 404.xhmtl. I am not using any reference bean in 404 xhtml.
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
id="htmlPage">
<h:head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
</h:head>
<h:body id="body">
<center>
<div class="headerTop">
<table id="pageHeader">
<tr>
<td align="left">
Header
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
<table id="pageContent" style="background-color: white;min-width: 60%;max-width: 90%" >
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="top" style="min-height: 600px;">
<table width="100%" style="float: left">
<tr>
<td>
404 Error
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<table style=" width:100%;">
<tr>
<td align="center">
<div>
footer
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</center>
</h:body>
</html>
This is only happening in IE, when I place the table labelled -- middle table -- into this HTML, the alignment of the parent table gets messed up and the width="250" on the first TD gets ignored it seems. (The select box should start at 250 pixels from the left of the page, however it doesn't. Remove the table labelled -- middle table - and the alignment works as it should. Why is this happening?
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<title>asdf</title>
</head>
<body>
<table id="tbl_container" width="1300" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="1">
<tr style="height: 50px;">
<td align="center" style="width: 250px;"><img src="logo.gif" alt="asdf" /></td>
<td valign="middle" align="left" style="text-align: left;"><span class="bold">asdf: </span><select class="form_select_"><option value="asdf">asdf</option></select></td>
</tr>
<tr id="row_container" align="left" valign="top">
<td colspan="2">
<!-- middle table -->
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
<tr>
<td style="width: 250px;" align="left" valign="top" id="nav_container"></td>
<td style="width: 25px;" align="left" valign="top"></td>
<td id="dat_container" style="width:1000px;" align="left"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 50px;">
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
According to the W3C Validator, your XHTML contains six errors. More specifically, the width="250" attribute that gets ignored is not valid. The main problem with invalid tags is that you no longer get a coherent cross-browser rendering since browsers are forced to use workarounds. Try to fix this first. As a general rule, layouts should be accomplished via CSS.
You are taking an extremely archaic approach to web site layout. Using tables to lay out anything in a web site that is not tabular in nature is a MASSIVE no-no. You should be using standards-compliant CSS and HTML (DIVs, Spans, etc.) to lay your site out. Tables are treated differently by each browser, and it can be extremely difficult to get a consistent, functional, easy to maintain layout with them.
I hate to say it, but I really can't bring myself to help you resolve your current problem using tables. My only answer is restart, use DIV tags and CSS, and enjoy the bliss that is standards-compliant layout. (Do NOT use the style="" attribute to set all your CSS, use a proper stylesheet.)
1000 + 250 + 25 > 1250
your middle table is too wide
When all is said and done the short answer is...because IE can be very retarted. That said here is a work around:
First you issue simplified is this:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head></head>
<body>
<table width="1000" border="1">
<tr>
<td width="250" style="background-color:blue;">a1</td>
<td style="background-color:green;" >a</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" style="background-color:red;">
<table>
<tr>
<td width="1000">c2</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Notice your 2nd td in your 1st row has no width specified. If you know what the width should be then you can work around this issue like so:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head></head>
<body>
<table width="1000" border="1">
<tr>
<td width="250" style="background-color:blue;">a1</td>
<td width="750" style="background-color:green;" >a</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" style="background-color:red;">
<table>
<tr>
<td width="1000">c2</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
I do agree with what others have said, that css is the way to go, but that was not your question. Hopefully this helps.