The structure of my table is
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td width="404">
<img src="assets/Hero-Image2.png" width="404" height="192" style="width:404px;height:192px;border:0;margin:0;outline:0;"/>
</td>
<td width="396" bgcolor="#00188F">
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</td>
</tr>
</table>
aand I want the image inside the first cell to have the same height as the second cell (so that the image blends into the background color of it. I know there are alternative ways of doing this, but I'm constrained since this is an HTML email for Outlook).
Right now the right cell is always having a height of 196px, even if I strip its contents to nothing:
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td width="404">
<img src="assets/Hero-Image2.png" width="404" height="192" style="width:404px;height:192px;border:0;margin:0;outline:0;"/>
</td>
<td width="396" bgcolor="#00188F">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
The right cell is always 196px and this causes the left cell to be the same height. Makes no sense.
If you add a display: block to the style of your image it will be fixed.
<img src="//placehold.it/404x192" style="width:404px; height:192px; display: block" />
The first answer should help you to understand why
EDIT: Actually, you dont need nothing but the display block and the image sizes.
What are the dimensions of your image?
I don't think HTML is "smart" enough to stretch your image to fit to your exact request.
Maybe you should try resizing your image in paint/photoshop to a dimension that has the same height/width ratio as 404:192 and see if that helps.
Related
I made a simple HTML table, filled it with placeholder images, and spaced them with a background color. This is what I get:
Compare the rightmost image to the left... then notice how each image gets smaller. Very odd.
td {
padding: 5px;
background-color: #C6C6C6;
}
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<img src="http://www.examplesite.com/pholder.png" />
</td>
<td style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"></td>
<td>
<img src="http://www.examplesite.com/pholder.png" />
</td>
<td style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"></td>
<td>
<img src="http://www.examplesite.com/pholder.png" />
</td>
<td style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"></td>
<td>
<img src="http://www.examplesite.com/pholder.png" />
</td>
<td style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"></td>
<td>
<img src="http://www.examplesite.com/pholder.png" />
</td>
</tr>
</table>
As you can see, I space the table with a margin and empty columns. I think that may be the cause, but I'm not sure why or how to fix it while keeping the neat visual appearance. How do I fix this?
Note: The site is also mobile-responsive and has to scale images automatically, so setting a fixed width/height will not work for me.
I do not have a good answer to your exact question but I can tell you using a table for layout is a very bad practice especially if you want to make the site responsive. Tables are for tabular data display.
Using divs and css with media queries will assure that your layout is consistent. Sure it will take a bit more but there is a lot of good material out there on how to do it.
====EDIT ====
To fix the issue at hand as well you can add a width to the td. It will keep them the same size if you know how many elements will be displayed. In the current table you have 5 so
<tr>
<td width="20%">image</td>
<td width="20%">image</td>
<td width="20%">image</td>
<td width="20%">image</td>
<td width="20%">image</td>
</tr>
Tables try and space things depending on the content. It leads to the end cells getting squished.
I've been screwing around with this for almost 2 hours and still can't get it to render the right way in Microsoft Outlook.
It was enough of a pain to get it to render in Internet Explorer, but I got it:
Still, here's how it looks as an HTML email in Outlook:
Don't worry about the line break for now; the problems I need to fix are
(1) The 1 pixel of white vertical space between the left piece and center piece
(2) The center piece having pixel more height than the left and right pieces
Here's the HTML:
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;">
<tr>
<td align="left" width="6" height="35">
<img src="images/left-button-corner.png" style="display:block;"/>
</td>
<td align="left" valign="center" bgcolor="#0a9fda" style="padding: 0 10px;" width="220" height="35">
CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE
</td>
<td align="left" width="6">
<img src="images/right-button-corner.png" style="display:block;" height="35"/>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
If I can't get it, I'm going to give up and use a single image. Any input much appreciated!
In regard to the height issue.
The height of the middle td is the content height (in this case it is line-height) + padding-top + padding-bottom.
You can remove padding declaration and valign and width attributes to make text vertically aligned to the middle and your button will be scaling horizontally (no breaks). I assume that would be good choice, considering you coded fixed height value of 35px.
Example of the middle <td>:
<td align="center" bgcolor="#0a9fda" style="height: 35px;" height="35">
<a href="http://example.com" style="color: #FFF; font-size: 14px;
font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none;">
CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE</a>
</td>
Additional Notes
You can control how the call-to-action text should break by using entity. For example CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE will break after "HERE" if the td width is insufficient to fit the text in one line.
Images should have border: none inline style to prevent uncontrolled gaps.
Also note, that valign attribute value center is incorrect. It can have values of top, bottom, or middle which is default.
There are more issues with your code.
Validate your code with some tool, for example http://validator.w3.org/.
I would try the following.
Try align="right" on the left button image:
<td align="right" width="6" height="35">
<img src="images/left-button-corner.png" style="display:block;"/>
</td>
I am trying to send html emails with images. Images look good in all email clients but in outlook they are too wide. How to fix max-width of image?
<table id="cg-cmgxsgg" class="widget widget-image " width="580" data-widget-code="email-image">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td align="center">
<div><img src="http://vcap.me//file/get/ce2c1e66-2129-41e8-903c-a40300e7bbd0" width="580" alt="" style="float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
Regardless of CSS support or HTML attributes, the main factor that is causing the issue in Outlook is the actual size of the image. Outlook usually ignores whatever HTML sizing (width= or height=) or CSS styling (width:, height:) and goes off of the embedded information in teh image. This is all based off DPI setting as well as the renderings of the Word HTML engine.
Mailchimp solutions
Below is snippet explaining the issue in more detail from here
"This issue usually happens when you are using a picture other than 96dpi.
When inserting a picture, Outlook will rescale the image as if it was a 96dpi image. This means that if you have a picture of 150dpi with a height of 88px, it will be displayed as an image of 56px high;
88px/150dpi * 96dpi = 56px
It even gets worse; upon sending, Outlook will convert and compress (re-render) the images to 96dpi with the new dimensions permanently! This means that all the "detailed" picture information is lost and you'll be sending an image of 96dpi which is 56px high. This is of course a severe and very visible quality loss.
If your picture is less than 96dpi, then the opposite happens. A picture of 88px high with a dpi of 32 would then result in a 96dpi image of 264px high. So the result will be a very large image (but this time you can resize it back without the image becoming blurry).
This is a long outstanding issue/function/design choice which goes back all the way to Word 6.0 from 1993."
For setting a max-width on images for Outlook I add a Width="600" attribute to the img tag. Note the lack of px on that size, with px it doesn't work and it must be on the img tag, not any parent element.
E.g.
<img width="600" src="http://www.myimage.co.nz/myimage.jpg" alt="My Image" />
On a side but related note I use a width of 280 for side by side images in a 600 width table. This is because Outlook adds padding (or maybe margin) and they would stack if you made them both 300.
Couple of things, I'd refrain from using floats etc in your emailer code and also would remove that wrapper div, with emailers you've really got to go with simple table markup. Also try to avoid things like p tags etc as they create additional space etc.
For your actual question I'd try something like this, I'd set a height on my image and ive it display:block
<table id="cg-cmgxsgg" class="widget widget-image" width="580" data-widget-code="email-image" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td align="center">
<img src="http://vcap.me//file/get/ce2c1e66-2129-41e8-903c-a40300e7bbd0" width="580" height="200" alt="" style="display:block;">
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
max-width is not a supported CSS style in Outlook 2007. (Neither is float, apparently.) Outlook is notorious for providing very limited CSS support.
Your best solution is to specify a smaller width (and height) in the HTML attributes:
<td align="center">
<div><img src="..." width="500" height="300" alt="" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></div>
</td>
I'm a bit late to the party (got here via Google). What works for me, and what I didn't see in the answers, is conditional comments for Outlook.
They work like this:
<!--[if mso]>
<table align="left" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100%;">
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="600" style="width:600px;">
<![endif]-->
<table align="left" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="min-width:100%;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<img align="center" alt="" src="[image source here]" width="[desired width here]">
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<!--[if mso]>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<![endif]-->
What your're doing here is essentially wrapping your image table in another table with fixed width, but only for Outlook.
MailChimp has a nice reference you should check out if you run into problems with Outlook: https://templates.mailchimp.com/development/css/outlook-conditional-css/
Hope this helps some fellow Googlers!
I am using this with perfect success in Outlook 365 (2022):
<img src="https://picsum.photos/1000/1000" width="100%" style="width: 100%;">
Hello guys i am trying to send an email with HTML in it, and of course i know that the formatting and alot of CSS is not supported in Outlook, but i was wondering why this simple thing was showing broken, is there any quick fix or a workaround/alternative? look at how the buttons should appear:
http://puu.sh/84ijt.png
But they appear like this:
http://puu.sh/84ijA.png
Here is the code for it:
<tr>
<td style="display:block;min-height:38px;max-height:38px;">
<p style="margin-left:15px;">
<a style="font-size: 10pt;color: #fff;text-align: center;display:block; width:70px;height:25px;text-decoration:none;background-color: #c64141;padding:5px 5px 0px 5px;border: 1px solid #901313;margin-right:10px;float:left;"
href="link here..">Enquire</a>
Full Details
</p>
</div>
</tr>
</td>
There is a bit of mis-information in this thread.
You can use an image for a button, however more advanced designers are trending towards "bulletproof" buttons these days. They display with images turned off. See this link: buttons.cm
Background images are supported in Outlook, but only in the <body> tag OR using VML, see the buttons.cm link above or backgrounds.cm for examples.
Back to your specific example, there are a few ways to accomplish it, but here is how I would do it:
<table width="300" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border:solid 1px #000000;">
<tr>
<td style="padding-top:20px; padding-bottom:10px;">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td width="50">
</td>
<td width="90" height="30" align="center" valign="middle" bgcolor="#c64141" style="border:solid 1px #000000; font-size:12px;">
Enquire
</td>
<td width="20">
</td>
<td width="90" height="30" align="center" valign="middle" bgcolor="#c64141" style="border:solid 1px #000000; font-size:12px;">
Full Details
</td>
<td width="50">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
On a side note, you need to use the 6-digit hex colors in html email, and don't waste your time with the following css properties as they have inconsistent support:
margin (use padding instead)
text-align (use align="" instead)
min-height & max-height
float (use align="" instead)
background-color (use bgcolor="" instead)
Also, avoid shorthand like padding:5px 5px 0px 5px;. Unfortunately you need to write it out padding:5px; padding-bottom:0;
As an email marketer I suggest you use an image for your button. Especially if it is a call to action. The one thing you don't want to be broken is that, and the only way you can trust it wont be and that is to use an image within a table cell.
I hope that helps!
Have you tried giving the <td> the background-color? (or another container)
You could also try
<a href="#">
<span style="display:block;background-color:red;color:white;width:100px;text-align:center;">link</span>
</a>
I haven't tested in Outlook but it might work.
Using images isn't the best solution, especially since most of the time emails are rendered without images until the user accepts to view images.
The way I do it is a table with in a table, so something like this:
<table width="outside container width here">
<tbody>
<tr>
<table style="apply your styles here, background colors, paddings etc (do not use margins, poorly supported.)" height="height of inner container" width="inner container width here" align="however you want it aligned">
<tbody><tr><td>Your button actually goes here</td></tr></tbody>
</table>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
I'm not primarily an html programmer, but I'm using HTML to format the display of one of my screens in iPhone. So what I have is something that is supposed to be a paragraph like display with an embedded image in the top right, so that while next to the image, the text wraps and doesn't overlap, but will continue to the right once it is below the image.
I hen need a table of comments posted below that, so knowing that my view is 728 pixels wide, I did
<table width="768">
When I do this code in my smaller (240 px wide) view, the comments appear below the image, but in the larger view, it doesn't. Anyone know why this might happen?
Here's a sample of the html I'm using:
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<p>
<img src="http://www.smspal.com/iPhonePhoto.jpg" width="320" height="480" align="right">
Tweet
</p>
<table width="728" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" >
<tr>
<td>
<b>
<font size="2">Parent1 Parent1</font>
</b>
</td>
<td>
<p align="right"><font size="1">Tue. May 3, 2011 at 3:47 PM</font></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
<p align="left">
<font size="2">Add a comment</font>
</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<hr noshade size="1" />
</body>
Your giving an absolute pixel size on your table to match the pixel width of a specific screen. The size is absolute so on a smaller screen size nothing more can be displayed to the left or right of it so it has nowhere to go but down.
Try using a percentage width as that is a relative size that will conform to many different screen sizes.
Why don't you just put the image inside the table? You can use the colspan attribute to keep the image in the right corner.