Email Template: text-decoration: none; NOT working - html

I am putting a link in email templates and I donot want to underline the link. In Outlook it is working fine but NOT working in Yahoo and Gmail. Sample code is as followed
<p> My paragraph
<b>
<a style="color: #9B0D25; cursor:pointer; text-decoration: none;" href="abc.com">abc.com</a>
</b>
</p>
I tried text-decoration: none !important; but same result. Can any body help me?

Well ... I was forwarding email from outlook to yahoo. While sending mail from Outlook, it discards the property text-decoration: none;. So when I send email directly to Yahoo, it works !!

Do not use paragraphs in HTML email. Move the style attribute of your anchor tag, to after your href attribute. If this does not solve your problem you have a larger issue than can be seen from the code you've provided.
Adding the important tag will actually be less effective because Outlook will ignore any styling that is followed by !important
If you'd like a template to use, check this one out.

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Remove blue hyperlink for phone number in email

Similar to this question, How do I remove the blue styling of telephone numbers on iPhone/iOS?
I tried the suggestion using following code but it does not work:
[href^="tel"]{
color:inherit;
}
My problem is I am copying a page from my website into an email (weekly newsletter), and gmail is converting it to a blue hyperlink. Even before adding a[href^="tel"], it did not show up as blue on my website. I'm thinking there is no fix since it is happening via google?
if this is happening on gmail app, you can use an anchor tag and give it a color without the href
<a style="color:#000001; text-decoration:none;">iOS Fix</a>
if this is happening on the generic email clients for iOS you can use a class in the header and assign the class to the td
<style>
.appleLinkFix a{color:#000000; text-decoration:none;}
</style>
next you can add the class to the td which iOS will create the link by itself.
<td class="appleLinkFix">48 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009</td>
Hope that helps answer your question.
Add these styles
color: inherit;
text-decoration: none;
This is also very easy to Google.

Styling Mailto Links for AOL Mail

Recently, AOL Mail started ignoring the coding I had been using to override their built-in link styling. The strange thing is that my coding still works for regular links, but not mailto links. Here is the workaround coding that had been working for AOL, Gmail, Outlook, and other mail services that like to insert their own styling for links:
<strong style="font-weight:normal;">fake#fakeURL.com</strong>
Has anyone had any success to fix this new problem with mailto links in AOL?
Try adding a class, like class="mail_link" to your tag and then inside the add a style targeting the tag:
.mail_link {
color: #428BCA !important;
text-decoration: none !important;
}

make web address in email newsletter appear as text not anchor link?

This is the code I'm using.
<pre style="cursor: default !important; pointer-events: none !important; font:700 21px Arial; color:#fff!important; margin:12px; text-decoration: none !important;">
info#royalsingapore.com | +65 6417 3059
</pre>
It is rendering as link when sent as an email newsletter from Madmimi.
I want it to be plain text. How to disable render as a link?
I could be wrong, but i believe the fact that is it rendering as a link is up to the website that the email is being viewed on. I bet that the website has a function running on the body of the message that turns anything that looks like a link into an anchored link.
Email systems such as google and specially apple on mobile recognize email addresses and phone numbers and make them clickable. you need to wrap it around in a anchor tag and give it a value of 000001 for example to make it black.

Removing the text-decoration in an HTML mailer for Gmail and Yahoo

I've created HTML mailers before, but I just cannot figure out how to remove the text-decoration from a link using inline styles for the Gmail/Yahoo clients. I am getting the link colors the way I want them, but gmail is inserting that ugly blue line under every link. I have tried
link
And
<span style="text-decoration:none">link</span>
I am using the F12 tools to inspect the email, and the inline styles are completely blown away by the email client and don't appear. I have a very basic template with no overriding properties - am I missing something that I need for Gmail?
Your code seems correct, I suspect it's actually the client you're sending the emails FROM that is stripping the code.
Outlook 2013 for example will strip text-decoration:none from anchor tags when sending HTML emails. Try sending your emails from an alternative client and see if you still have issues with the tags being stripped.
Try using the real color code. Not sure if the closing semicolon makes a difference also... This always works for me (in Gmail at least)
click here
On a side note, Gmail is known to break #FFFFFF and #000000 (pure black or white). In that case I use #FFFFF9 and #000001 instead.
Try this:
<a href="link" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none;">
<span style="color:red;">link</span>
</a>

How do I remove link underlining in my HTML email?

<td width="110" align="center" valign="top" style="color:#000000;">
<a href="https://example.com" target="_blank"
style="color:#000000; text-decoration:none;">BOOK NOW
</a>
</td>
I used this code to make a link in my HTML email. In browsers and Outlook it's working nicely, but in GMail, Hotmail, and ymail it shows links underlined.
Can anyone help me to get rid of this?
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Outlook will strip out the style with !important tag leaving the regular style, thus no underline. The !important tag will over rule the web based email clients' default style, thus leaving no underline.
I see this has been answered; however, I feel this link provides appropriate information for what formatting is supported in various email clients.
http://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/
It's worth noting that GMail and Outlook are two of the pickiest to format HTML email for.
After half a day looking into this (and 2 years since this question was opened) I believe I have found a comprehensive answer to this.
<font color="#000000"><span style='text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>Link</span></font>
(You need the text-underline property on the span inside the link and the font tag to edit the colour)
Use !important in the text decoration rule.
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Windows Mail seemed to outright ignore inline text-decoration tag but what fixed it for me was by adding this to the head:
<!--[if (mso)|(mso 16)]>
<style type="text/css">
body, table, td, a, span { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important; }
a {text-decoration: none;}
</style>
<![endif]-->
Another way to fool Gmail (for phone numbers): use a
~ instead of a
-
404-835-9421 --> 404~835~9421
It'll save you (or less savvy users ;-) the trip down html lane.
I found another way to remove links in outlook that i tested so far. if you create a blank class for example in your css say .blank {} and then do the following to your links for example:
<span class="blank" style="text-decoration:none !important;">Search</span>
this worked for me hopefully it will help someone who is still having trouble taking out the underline of links in outlook. If anyone has a workaround for gmail please could you help me tried everything in this thread nothing is working.
Thanks
I think that if you put a span style after the <a> tag with text-decoration:none it will work in the majority of the browsers / email clients.
As in:
<a href="" style="text-decoration:underline">
<span style="color:#0b92ce; text-decoration:none">BANANA</span>
</a>
I added both declarations on the a href which worked in outlook and gmail apps. outlook ignores the !important and gmail needs it. Web versions of email work with both/either.
text-decoration: none !important; text-decoration: none;
To completely "hide" underline for <a> in both mail application and web browser, can do the following tricky way.
<a href="..."><div style="background-color:red;">
<span style="color:red; text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:white;">BUTTON</span></span>
</div></a>
Color in 1st <span> is the one you don't need, MUST set as same as your background color. (red in here)
Color in 2nd <span> is the one for your button text. (white in here)
Text decoration none was not working for me, then i found an email in outlook that did not have the line and checked the code:
<span style='font-size: 12px; font-family: "Arial","Verdana", "sans-serif"; color: black; text-decoration-line: none;'>
<a href="http://www.test.com" style='font-size: 9.0pt; color: #C69E29; text-decoration: none;'><span>www.test.com</span></a>
</span>
This one is working for me.
I used a combination of not showing links in google, adding links for mso (outlook) and the shy tag, to keep the looks and feels for my company. Some code may be redundant (for my company the looks where more important then the be clickable part. (it felt like a jigsaw, as every change brakes something else)
<td style="color:rgb(69, 54, 53)">
<!--[if gte mso 9]>
<a href="http://www.immothekerfinotheker.be" style="text-decoration:none;">
<span style="text-decoration:none;">
<![endif]-->
www­.­immothekerfinotheker­.­be
<!--[if gte mso 9]>
</a>
</span>
<![endif]-->
</td>
Hope this helps someone
All email clients adjust the HTML and the CSS code you provide by
their own rules:
e.g.: gmail removes everything but the inner HTML of the body tag.
1. for most other clients you can have a style-tag in your header
<style type="text/css">
a {text-decoration: none !important;}
</style>
note: don't use CSS comments as YAHOO!Mail might cause trouble.
2. to be on the save side add the same code inline into the A tag as you did and an extra span tag as well (the style rules in a tags get often removed)
<a href="" style="text-decoration: none !important;">
<span style="text-decoration: none !important;">
text
</span>
</a>
It wholly depends on the email client whether it wants to display the underline under the link or not. As of now, the styles in the body are only supported by:
Outlook 2007/10/13 +
Outlook 2000/03
Apple iPhone/iPad
Outlook.com
Apple Mail 4
Yahoo! Mail Beta
http://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/
Use text-decoration:none !important; instead of text-decoration:none; to make sure you "lose" the underline.
Here in http://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/, a nice explanation to say this is restricted! And a pretty nice guide to know all limitations of CSS in email clients.
You can do "redundant styling" and that should fix the issue. You use the same styling you have on the but add it to a that is within the .
Example:
<td width="110" align="center" valign="top" style="color:#000000;">
<a href="https://example.com" target="_blank"
style="color:#000000; text-decoration:none;"><span style="color:#000000; text-decoration:none;">BOOK NOW</span></a>
</td>
While viewing the html email try inspecting the element on that link and see what is overwriting it. Use that class and define it that style again in your head style and define the text-decoration: none !important;
In my case these are the classes that are overwriting my inline style so declared this on the head of my html email and defined the style that I want implemented.
It worked for me, hope it will work on your one too.
.ii a[href]{
text-decoration: none !important;
}
#yiv8915438996 a:link, #yiv8915438996 span.yiv8915438996MsoHyperlink{
text-decoration: none !important;
}
#yiv8915438996 a:visited, #yiv8915438996 span.yiv8915438996MsoHyperlinkFollowed{
text-decoration: none !important;
}
Code like the lines below worked for me in Gmail Web client. A non-underlined black link showed up in the email. I didn't use the nested span tag.
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
Peter Blog
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
Note: Gmail will strip off any incorrect inline styles. E.g. code like the line below will have its inline styles all stripped off.
Peter Blog
I copied my html page and pasted to word.
Edited the signature in word deleting the spaces where the underline is placed and make my own "padding" presssing space bar.
Copied again and pasted to Outlook 2013.
Worked fine for me.
In Windows 10 Mail, you might need to add these in your html head:
<!--[if (mso)|(mso 16)]>
<style type="text/css">
body, table, td, a, span { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important; }
a {text-decoration: none;}
</style>
<![endif]-->
The 'a {text-decoration: none;}' fixed the underline problems :)
In my case, I configured the signature (copy and paste in gmail) using Safari. I tried every code you putted here, but those didn´t worked. After you paste the signature using Safari, you can come back to Chrome and the underline is gone.
Using text-decoration: unset; inside the style of the element works for GMAIL
All you have to do is:
<a href="" style="text-decoration:#none; letter-spacing: -999px;">
place your "a href" tag without any styling before div / span of text.
then make your styling in the div/span tag.
for the most restricted styling email client.
<div><a href=""><span style="text-decoration:none">title</span><a/></div>
You should write something like this.
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