I am trying to send an email with html content but I am observing displaying issues.
The following does not get displayed properly in width by Microsoft Office Outlook, any hint?
<div style="width: 650px; border: 1px solid blue">hello</div>
use tables, and on <td> use width="" propery and also style="width:" ... for some clients are reading the width property and others reads the style property
You must reconsider to change the email template to be tables within table and with inline styling
here is a sub link to problem which you may encounter
How to align several tables in td in center
HTML divs and spans don't work particuarly well in office outlook. You are better off using tables for this display.
Reference: "...The best way to combat these issues would be to use a table-based layout." https://litmus.com/blog/a-guide-to-rendering-differences-in-microsoft-outlook-clients
Here is some further information taken from another answer:
"- JavaScript - completely off limits. If you try, you'll probably go straight to email hell (a.k.a. spam folder). This means that LESS is also out of bounds, although you can obviously use the resulting CSS styles if you want to.
- Inline CSS is much safer to use than any other type of CSS (embedded is possible, linked is a definite no). Media queries are possible, so you can have some kind of responsive design. However, there is a long list of CSS attributes that don't work - essentially, the box model is largely unsupported in email clients. You need to structure everything with tables.
There are loads of answers on SO, and lots of other links on the internet at large.
http://www.emailology.org/
http://www.email-standards.org/
http://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/
http://www.getfractal.com/ [DISCLOSURE - I used to work at Fractal.]"
Reference:
Has anyone gotten HTML emails working with Twitter Bootstrap?
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I need to create a website and I would like to increase the size of the buttons because it looks really really bad.
I'm not allowed to use any form of CSS or JavaScript for this project and the solutions I found so far all use CSS.
I've tried inserting the buttons into a table but that didn't do anything to help me and all the solutions I found on the internet either don't work or use CSS
You can use header elements like <h1>, <h2> etc. Semantically it may not be very 'clean' to use in this way (you are not creating headers as one would do in e.g. a publication), but I'm afraid there's not much else.
<button>Standard size</button><br />
<br />
<button><h1>Using h1</h1></button>
<button><h2>Using h2</h2></button>
<button><h3>Using h3</h3></button>
<button><h4>Using h4</h4></button>
Bootstrap's page about responsive design says this:
Responsive utilities should not be used with tables, and as such are
not supported.
Being new to web development, I am not familiar with what this is talking about. It seems that there is a general aversion to using <table>. Is this true?
Also, the quote as phrased doesn't make sense to me. Shouldn't it read like this?
Tables should not be used in responsive utilities, and as such are
not supported.
Tables are very structured elements. A <td> can only ever be a column. You couldn't change it to suddenly appear like a row or float it somewhere, etc., etc.
HTML, in responsive design, shouldn't define what something should look like (or where it should appear to a degree) that's CSSs job. the HTML should simply group text and other elements. So a HTML <table> and all it's associated tags breaks this paradigm.
CSS display now contains table like elements: How is a CSS “display: table-column” supposed to work? so this removes the need to embed <table> tags and allows you to use the more generic <div> tags and their like, thus now it's a <div> that looks like a <table>, there is nothing to stop you making this appear as something completely different simply by updating the CSS. You could even make it look different for different audiences, etc.
hope this helps a little.
It's not really true in the latest browsers, but traditionally it's been hard to unstyle a table in CSS to not have a table layout.
So while a table might be the correct semantic element for your tabular data, pragmatics meant that if, in some responsive design profiles, you want the data to be displayed in a linear format, it just couldn't be done, except by using JavaScript to rip the table markup out and replace it.
Try table, tbody, tr, td {display:block; } - (JsFiddle http://jsfiddle.net/Z26GF/) in various browser (e.g. compare IE10 with IE9 behaviour) to see what I mean.
(The more I learn about Bootstrap, the less I like it. It seems to encourage a number of bad HTML practices. This is one of them)
I'm renovating a legacy Java based web site. I've already greatly reduced the number of tags used on the front end by using CSS to do the graphic lay out of the "screens". Is there a CSS tag that will replace HTML tables that makes a good grid for HTML forms? Does it significantly reduce the number of tags? Is it reliable in most of the main browsers?
Tables are actually prevalently used to align forms. You take out the borders with <table borders='0'>. They are pretty reliable for aligning because the table cells in different rows line up.
You'll still probably want to use <table> tags for actual grid/table elements. But, you could consider using something like Javascript grid/table plugins for tables... for styling, and functionality.
I would suggest using <ul> and <li> elements (and then setting CSS rules for those elements,) when formatting <form> elements, though. If it doesn't seem to be working out... you can still leave the <form> in a table; over the past decade, however, browser support for CSS has made it a lot easier to use HTML lists instead of tables for formatting things like forms.
I want to do the following:
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width: 100%;
height: 60px
image center
image bottom/right
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I used to do it with table:
<table border="0">
<tr>
<td width="25%"></td>
<td width="50%"><center>image center</center></td>
<td width="25%" valing bottom><div align="right">image bottom/right</div></td>
</tr>
</table>
but they say using tables for formatting is bad (Dunno why)
So is there any idea how to do the following banner? I heard there is absolute position, so mightbe the 2 images could be embedded to 2 divs
First off before I do any explaining I think you could use some visuals of just how powerful CSS can be...
CSS Zen Garden shows how using a different CSS style sheet can completely change the entire way a site looks (use theme links on the right side)...
http://www.csszengarden.com/
My own site supports multiple themes which you can instantly change without even reloading the page...
http://www.jabcreations.com/blog/?prompt=themes-official
1.) Tables are intended for tabular data only, think the nutrition panels on food labels if you're not sure where to start. Tables are great for tabular data because it removes the formatting issues however you should never put non-tabular content in to tables as it disrupts the context of the content to search engines and you should instead use division elements instead since non-tabular data tends to do anything except for be presented in a tabular fashion.
2.) The context of using either CSS background-images or (X)HTML img (image) elements comes down to what you're trying to do.
2.A.) CSS3 allows the use of multiple background-images however browser support isn't yet universal when considering browser market shares...
http://www.caniuse.com/#search=css3%20multiple%20backgrounds
...as time passes however IE8 and other older browsers that do not support this modification to the CSS background-image property will slowly disappear so it will only become an increasingly viable option.
2.B.) You can combine an img element and a CSS background-image together to get two images to display inside of a single element.
2.C.) You can use two division elements with the same styling (or lack thereof) and then give them each a CSS background-image.
Here is the generally relevant CSS code...
background-image: url(kittens.png);
/* Choose one or the other below */
background-position: right bottom;
background-position: center center;
I'll reiterate that tables for on-tabular data is exceptionally bad for styling. Once you begin to grasp how CSS works (cascading means rules on lower lines override earlier lines, so the same rule on line 10 will override the same rule on line 9, if they are the same rule).
By using CSS you're going to have so much more power to quickly implement changes across your entire site and you'll be able to implement changes quicker and move on to more important things.
At work we had a situation in which a client required a web front for one of our products. None of use are web developers but since I was finishing up on my previous project I volunteered to give it a base.
I have spent the last week or so reading up on best practices and asp.net web forms. Based on requirements we settled on HTML 4 / ASP.NET / CSS 2.1. The customer is going to use the latest browsers so I got to concentrate on nice clean layout.
I have been working on samples using the 960.gs system and I am finding it pretty handy to lay out content without too much trouble, but, I have a major issue.
With all of the tutorials I have seen, they tend to stop or become quite vague as soon the inner most content layout is reached.
Is there any best practices here? or is there any tutorials regarding laying out the inner most content.
What I am talking about for instance is laying out the following:
<div id="question_1" >
<asp:Label runat="server">Question 1</asp:Label>
<asp:Label runat="server" >What is the name of the guy from the other thing?</asp:Label>
<asp:RadioButton runat="server" Text="Yes"></asp:RadioButton>
<asp:RadioButton runat="server" Text="No"></asp:RadioButton>
<asp:DropDownList runat="server"></asp:DropDownList>
</div>
The above html represents a fictional question object. This would be on a list of questions page, much like a survey. Currently, because I can't find the info I am pretty much using css to absolutely position the elements since, because I am using a grid system, I know the width of the box that this div is contained in.
EDIT: By absolutely positioned I mean within the containing element not the page as a whole... Just to clear that up.
From a form layout perspective there are two things to consider: usability and accessibility. Usability defines things like labels going on the left, fields on the right. The exception in this case being with radio buttons and check boxes when the label goes on the right.
Accessibility, defines that each field should have a label tag; fields should be logically grouped etc.
The RNIB have a collection of articles on web design which touch on accessibility and usability. Personally I think they are a great place to start.
EDIT:
Meat & veg answer: The ideal coders (should) try and achieve to style the form but maintain the flow, i.e. ensure that labels for text fields are styled to appear to the left but appear before the field in the HTML.
So, yes it is good practice to:
Wrap each label/field pair in a div, allowing you to clear/position this separate to other pairings.
Make the label display:block with a fixed width and float:left
Don't forget to add required * - I usually use a span within the label so I can control the style of the required * separately.
Use <fieldset> tags to group and style sets of label/field pairings
Unless you are trying to create a highly stylized form, avoid absolutely positioning anything you don't have to. I find that as soon as I absolutely position one thing, I have to absolutely position others for consistency so you should always first try and find a solution which allows elements to control the position of subsequent elements
I know developers who still use tables to arrange their forms. Is this bad? Yes, but it works and for a temporary solution or small, rarely used form this might be an appropriate trade-off.
Scott on Writing has a nice article on basic form styling. This guys is awesome and knows what he is talking about.
And also there are jQuery tools for creating nicer more responsive controls:
jQuery UI
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