Welp, in my previous question, i was a table noob(probably still am) so i've learned to code table by hand and my html e-mail mostly looks fine now but in litmus tests, my footer appears weird. Some elements vertically align themselves to the middle.
<head></head>
Here is the js fiddle https://jsfiddle.net/zr00qgdr/ It's fine here. but if you go to litmus tests here: https://litmus.com/pub/533fe66/screenshots You'll see that bottom elements are messed up in outlook 2007/10/13. (I know they are images. But that's all i can do. Text is sadly not a choice...)
Any help is appreciated.
The fact is that Outlook uses Word for rendering HTML markup (message bodies).
It may not answer the question, but I hope you'll find the following series of articles helpful:
Word 2007 HTML and CSS Rendering Capabilities in Outlook 2007 (Part 1 of 2)
Word 2007 HTML and CSS Rendering Capabilities in Outlook 2007 (Part 2 of 2)
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I’m using comments in some HTML code to make identifying elements easier for future updates. The HTML is being used to create an email in Outlook.
When I comment using
<!— MY COMMENT —>
it is not visible when I view the email source! I can see the HTML code, but the comments I have added are not visible.
The email is composed using a VBO through Blue Prism (not sure if it’s relevant but adding for clarification).
Can anyone shed any light on why this could be happening and how I can make these comments visible.
Thanks!
Comments added to HTML code
Email composed with HTML code
Comments are not visible when viewing source code
Keep in mind Outlook messages are shown and edited using Word, so it converts the original HTML to its internal representation and then back to HTML. See if hidden text would work any better.
can anyone tell me what is MSO?. I mean right now I'm studying email template HTML and I did it on Gmail and it works fine but when it comes to outlook it becomes weird. Especially the image part and the size and everything is just mess up.
I read a few here and there, blogs or articles or website but it seems that they use MSO to code it to fix the outlook output email template. Is it right? Why do we need to use MSO to configure and how to use it actually and what is it for actually?
I'm not too sure on this part but it is much help if you can explain to me about the outlook part of code in HTML.
Here is 1 example I read on the website but not too sure about it.
https://jasemiller.medium.com/a-fix-for-outlook-image-issues-in-html-email-campaigns-b8dd1c8f7d16
Why does Gmail be easier than outlook to get the output for email template HTML?
MSO is an acronym that stands for Microsoft Office. In the email world, it usuallys refers to one of the followings:
Conditional comments. Using a special syntax created by Microsoft for Internet Explorer (supported up until IE 9) and then used inside Microsoft Outlook 2007 and above, you can create code that will only be available in the targeted versions of Outlook. For example, in the blog post you mention, they use an <!--[if mso]><![endif]--> conditional comment to create a table structure for Outlook only. You can read Microsoft’s documentation about conditional comments.
mso specific styles properties. Those are CSS properties created by Microsoft and only supported by Word’s rendering engine. They come with a mso- prefix. They can be a variant of well known CSS properties (like mso-border-alt that is an alias of border in CSS) or something completely unique to Word (like mso-hide). Here’s a list of all styles supported by Outlook including mso- properties.
The reason why Gmail might render your email better than Outlook is that the Outlooks on Windows (from 2007 to 2019) use Word’s rendering engine. And Word is not very good at rendering HTML and CSS. (In Can I email’s scoreboard, Outlook is ranked last why Gmail is currently ranked 22nd.) I wrote a detailed article last year to help make sense of Outlook’s rendering engine and I think it can help you.
I have HTML template completely written with div, a, img, button elements with inline CSS styling. It renders perfectly in HTML editors but not in Email clients. Should it be completely written in table form for Email clients? Here is my code:
Look it on JSFiddle
I believe your particular question is dependent on which email-client you are targeting. It would be helpful if you could specify which email-client you are looking to use, as well as which parts of your html are not working, because certain email-clients may not support certain parts of your code.
For example, as defined here,
Outlook has the following problems for rendering HTML:
Outlook does not “understand” HTML bulleted list tags
Outlook uses Times New Roman as the default font
Outlook may add a page break to an email if it exceeds 1800px
Outlook cleans up paragraph and margin spacing
Outlook does not support background images
Which you may be able to fix by using specific techniques, such as, as you mentioned, wrapping with tables. I found a link here that may be helpful if you are trying to resolve the rendering on Outlook.
If there is another specific email-client you need to target, there should be posts on stack overflow or on the web for resolving them as well.
Good luck!
You do have to use tables in email HTML and then use CSS and formatting to mask it. Here's a handy guide you can use for email HTML.
I have been reading on many websites that the layout for a HTML email should be structured with tables rather than using divs. What is the reason for this?
Because of lack of css compatibility with email clients listed at Email Client CSS Support. So your rules inside style gonna be ignored in Gmail for exemple, rather than table inline rules
Since Outlook 2007 (on Windows) emails with HTML are rendered using Word. Word doesn't have very good support for HTML and CSS so that's why you're stuck with tables for layout.
Word 2007 HTML and CSS Rendering Capabilities in Outlook 2007
Unfortunately I can't post the sample code here, but I'm trying to debug an issue in which an HTML email that displays perfectly in both Firefox and IE standalone, ends up having its text center aligned after its framed by Gmail, but only in Internet Explorer (ie8)
Has anyone else had a similar experience? The HTML in question was generated by a business user in MSWord, so is full of the standard junk that you'd expect dealing with generated HTML, which makes debugging particularly heinous. I'm hoping that someone else might have experienced something similar before I end up re-writing the entire content by hand.
Without code this is nigh on impossible to sort out, however:
1- Use tables instead of divs in HTML emails (don't ask, just works better)
2- use inline styles as well as attributes (i.e. <td align="left" style="text-align: left;">)
3- wrap your content inside a one cell table with that cell aligned left as well.
If none of these work - Post some code ^_^
note: Don't use MS Word for emails - even if Outlook 2007 uses it for rendering....