I have this table in my e.mail template and for some reason in outlook 2013 it apears double the height than it is actualy set:
[EDIT now codel looks like this]
<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="6" width="100%" style="height: 6px; font-size: 6px; background-color:#d8ebf6; line-height= 6px;">
<tr class="preheader" width="100%" style="background-color:#d8ebf6;">
<td style="background-color:#d8ebf6;" align="left"></td><td height="6" width="600" align="center" style="background-color: #00568A;" valign="top"></td><td style="background-color:#d8ebf6;" align="right"></td>
</tr>
</table>
DEMO
Maybe some ideas why this happens or how to solve the issue?
Outlook will ignore height on empty table cells, it's minimum height is about 10px. You can add a non breaking space and this will look empty but satisfy outlooks desire to always be awkward.
So I wanted to share the solution I found which works fine both in outlook and common email inboxes:
Basically I needed to nest table in a table to get this dark blue part in the middle which on lower than 600 resolution takes up 100% width. And I needed to add font size and invisible char , because otherwise outlook was making two lines instead of intended one line.
Using previously posted code and adding invisible chars between <td></td> tags and adding font size helped as well, but on mobile(lower than 600 resolution) these invisible chars were leaving small whitespaces from left and right, so dark blue was not taking whole width as wanted.
Code:
<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="100%" width="100%" class="res_width">
<tr class="preheader" style="background-color:#d8ebf6;">
<td align="center" valign="top">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600" class="res_width">
<tr>
<td valign="middle" height="6" width="600" style="background-color: #00568A; font-size: 6px;">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
DEMO
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I'm working on html mail, but the width of last column is too small, my code is :
<td width='250' style="width: 250px !important;">
开发
</td>
and result is:
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but when the word change to English not Chinese, the width works well:
enter image description here,
and when using web outlook it works well, but when use outlook client the width is too small.
Try setting the width and height also in your Table.
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="250" height="80">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="80" width="250">
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
I appear to be getting a 1px white box around my tables in outlook 2007,10 and 13. Ive done border collapse and it hasn't fixed the issue? Want three 200px tables aligned horizontally, but because a 1px border is being applied it thinks they're more than 200px, therefore breaking the alignment. Tried everything so any suggestions appreciated.
<table style="border-collapse: collapse;border:none;padding:0px;margin:0px;" width="600" bgcolor="#B6B6B6" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
<tr>
<td>
<table style="border-collapse: collapse;border:none;padding:0px;margin:0px;" align="left" bgcolor="#EE070B" width="200" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
<tr><td>1</td></tr>
</table>
<table style="border-collapse: collapse;border:none;padding:0px;margin:0px;" align="left" bgcolor="#1527EA" width="200" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
<tr><td>2</td></tr>
</table>
<table style="border-collapse: collapse;border:none;padding:0px;margin:0px;" align="left" bgcolor="#ED7407" width="200" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
<tr><td>3</td></tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Outlook adds around 20px around Tables, no matter what. Not sure on the 1px border but try this hack to fool all Outlook versions into thinking your Tables are Table cells: http://labs.actionrocket.co/make_mobile_email_work_in_outlook
In my email, there is a right-aligned image. And the problem is, its right side does not exactly stick to the right edge of parent table cell, in stead, there is a 1px gap. That only happens on Outlook 2007, 2010, and 2013, not on other versions of Outlook and other email agents.
Please copy the code at here and send it to Outlook 2007, 2010, or 2013 to see the problem.
I had tried many solutions such as border-collapes, mso-table-rspace, mso-line-height-rule, etc, and still had no luck.
When using images emails tend to perform more consistently when the width and height are also added to the which surrounds the image, please see my edited version of your table holding your image.
<table align="center" width="600" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" bgcolor="ffffff">
<tr>
<td width="600" align="right" bgcolor="ffffff" style="padding: 50px 0;">
<table align="right" width="250" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td width="250" height="200" align="right">
<img style="display: block;" src="http://placehold.it/250x200" width="250" height="200" border="0" alt="">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Problems can also arise when <td> or <table> have no fixed widths, but immediately outer <td> or <table> do, as the inner <table> or <td> may not inherit the widths properly.
I haven't had an opportunity to test this, but I will if I can.
So, typical question. I have searched a boatload here. Tried everything suggested. Nutin'
So Maybe to ask the question fresh.
I am having some verical gaps in Outlook 2013 (and 2007 too i think) between my image slices. (Also my text is extending further than it is set as)
Knowing that display:block doesn't really work for Outlook. I've tried wrapping in spans and giving the span a display:block
I'm at a loss. I'm hoping someone can answer this one easily. Grrrrr!!!! Outlook! Why must you be so popular?
http://pastebin.com/ESfEmWer
http://tinypic.com/r/2gtdhu1/6
Don't go for
display: [anything]
if you wish to include Outlook 2007. See http://www.xequte.com/support/maillistking/css_in_emails.html for reference of which CSS styles you can use and which you better don't.
Don't use any whitespaces trailing
<td>
and don't use any whitespaces preceding
</td>
And you should also avoid
<style>...</style>
as this will most likely will be striped away completely. Always go for inline-styles. And I know that this is not part of a real answer, but just as a hint: If you are doing HTML newsletters make them as if you were doing them for Internet Explorer 4. E-Mail clients like Outlook use the most ridiculous CSS-renderer you can imagine. Even Internet Explorer 5 is more sophisticated in rendering CSS then modern Outlooks.
Oh, and by the way: If there is a chance that the recipients of your newsletter might read them online in hotmail, gmx or gmail then you should check them, too. You will stand in awe and wonder how those online clients handle your code and what they inject.
You have a ton of whitespace causing the gap:
<a href="mms://a1783.v167326.c16732.g.vm.akamaistream.net/7/1783/16732/0/QPS.Onstreammedia.com/origin/jjready2/%5bInbox%5d/Talent%20Management/CDF%201-18_WMV.wmv">
<img style="display:block" src="http://emaniocreative.com/eblasts/3_26_2013/Message-from-Dominic-&-Louise.jpg" width="360" height="257" border="0" alt="Message from Dominic & Louise - Video"></a>
Try taking the whitespace out.. also display:block doesn't work like display:inline-block (the later you probably want instead) You cannot add formatting such as margin or padding to SPAN. I would keep what you have as IMG and DIV elements, however if you are using a TABLE you may want the border-collapse:collapse; property set.
Also to note, if you are using display:inline-block you will want to take out ALL whitespace between your elements:
<tr>...</tr><tr>...</tr>
Instead of what you have currently:
<tr>
...
</tr>
<tr>
...
</tr>
You have way too many colspans, which could cause problems. You should be nesting your tables instead.
I've created hundreds of emails and never had any issues with whitespace caused by line-returns in email code. (Outlook 2007 is the first thing I check my emails in)
It is always good practice to use display:block; and also keep images in their own <td> by themselves.
Try something like this instead:
<html>
<head>
<title>Ambassador Newsletter</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<style>img {display:block}</style>
</head>
<!--REPLACE the following text with the path to the images on your server http://emaniocreative.com/eblasts/3_26_2013/ -->
<body style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: #FFFFFF;" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><table bgcolor="#ebebeb" width="100%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><table width="600" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td valign="top" style="padding-top:30px; padding-bottom:30px;">
<table id="Table_01" width="650" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="border-collapse: collapse;">
<tr>
<td>
<!-- NEST A TABLE INSTEAD-->
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#770000">
<tr>
<td style="padding:20px;">
header
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- /NEST-->
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<!-- NEST A TABLE INSTEAD-->
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td style="padding:20px;">
Body section 1
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding:20px;">
Body section 2
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- /NEST-->
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td></tr></table></td></tr></table></body></html>
In my example I used padding instead of cells for spacing.
You never need a blank spacer image. Use a in an empty cell instead if you prefer not to use padding:
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#770000">
<tr>
<td height="20" colspan="3">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="20">
</td>
<td width="610">
header
</td>
<td width="20">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="20" colspan="3">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
On a side note, there is an unavoidable issue with vertical separation when forwarding from Outlook to Gmail for example, (courtesy of mso.normal p tags added) but for the initial recipient there are no problems.
I have a table defined as
<table width="600" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td width="600">
<table width="600" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="25">
<tr>
<td width="210">Content 1 with grey background</td>
<td width="390">COntent 2 with white background</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="600" colspan="2"><img src="image.jpg" width="600"></td>
</tr>
</table>
Now this image.jpg has 210 px as grey background and 390px as white background in order to align with the above table cells.
However, it shows up as non aligned in outlook 2007. It shows up fine in others.
Any suggestions?
You're lucky it shows at all. The background property is loosely if at all supported by most email clients. I would suggest against using it or using just an <img> tag instead.
Here's more info on what outlook 2007 supports:
http://www.email-standards.org/clients/microsoft-outlook-2007/