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.
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I am having a outlook html email nightmare here.. Basically there is one table and one image on the top and content on the bottom.:
The image is always substracting 1px so it is never 100% with the table. Anyone knows a solution?
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style=
"margin-left:2px;padding:0px; width:846px; background-color:#000">
<tr>
<td>
<div style="font-size: 0px;"><img border="0" src=
"img/header1.jpg" style=
"display:block;align:bottom;border:none;padding:0; width:846px;"></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Blah.. Content</td>
</tr>
</table>
I'm pretty sure this is from outlook's issue with border-collapse. Try this:
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:collapse; padding:0; margin:0px;">
<tr valign="top">
<td align="left" valign="top">
<img src="http://placekitten.com/g/640/300" width="640" height="300" alt="" style="display:block;" border="0" />
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Use the img tag for images.
Outlook uses Word for rendering HTML markup. You can read more about that in the following series of articles:
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)
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'm working on optimizing HTML emails for mobile devices. I have been tasked with finding a universal solution for creating a 2 column to 1 column responsive layout. I found an article written by Campaign Monitor - http://www.campaignmonitor.com/guides/mobile/responsive/. I've tried their markup and it works on most clients and browsers with the exception of Outlook 2007, 2010, and 2013. I've provided a jsfiddle link with my markup for reference. Is there a way to make this work in these version of Outlook?
EDIT: I'm not trying to make the responsive part of the email work in Outlook. I want the 2 tables ( Left & Right in the jsfiddle example) to display next to each other rather than stacked on top of one another. This works in Gmail (IE, FF, Chrome, Safari), AOL (IE, FF, Chrome, Safari), Yahoo (IE, FF, Chrome, Safari), Hotmail (IE, FF, Chrome, Safari), Apple Mail 4 & 5, Outlook 2003, Android 4.0, iOS 4, 5, & 6. My concern is only with Outlook 2007 and later when the rendering engine changed.
<html>
<head>
<style>
#media all and (max-width: 590px){
*[class].responsive{ width: 320px !important; }
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table width="100%" style="background-color: #000;" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td height="15"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="100%">
<table width="560" style="background-color: #fff;" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="responsive">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="100%">
<table width="280" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="responsive">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="100%" height="40" style="background-color: #ececec;">
<div height="40" style="font-weight:bold; font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align:center;">Left (top)</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table width="280" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="responsive">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="100%" height="40" style="background-color: #bcbcbc;">
<div height="40" style="font-weight:bold; font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align:center;">Right (bottom)</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="15"></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</body>
</html>
http://jsfiddle.net/bxdUp/
Have you tried adding align="left" and align="right" to the stacking tables?
See updated fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/bxdUp/1/
You currently have the right table with align="left", but I have had success with Outlook table alignment manipulating the align value.
For anyone that comes across this SO and is looking for a solution to the above problem where the responsive 2-column content is ALSO centered I found that using conditionals to define columns only for Outlook made my world 1^300 easier. Of course it is no longer responsive in Outlook, but really... F Outlook.
<!-- define a 100% width table -->
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="100%" style="text-align:center; background-color:white">
<!-- define a fixed width table using a class for responsive. I found that defining an arbitary height seemed to be important ~ silly Outlook -->
<!-- align center -->
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="fixedWidthTable" border="0" height="300" align="center">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<!-- align left (this renders as float:left in webkit). Absolutely defined width. -->
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="300" align="left" style="margin:0;padding:0;width:300px">
<tr>
<td>
<!-- content -->
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- > THIS BIT IS THE KICKER < whack in a column if Outlook -->
<!--[if mso]></td><td><![endif]-->
<!-- Brilliant. -->
<!-- align right (this renders as float:right in webkit). Absolutely defined width. -->
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="300" align="right" style="margin:0;padding:0;width:300px">
<tr>
<td>
<!-- content -->
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
... close outer tables etc.
I've found that reductions in table widths by a few pixels work in the case for Outlook, which I can only assume is Outlook rendering pixel widths differently than other email clients.
Not ideal, but it has worked for me.
I don't think that it is gonna work on Outlook versions. Because first of all Outlook doesn't understand media queries. Outlook version 2007 is based on the rendering Engine of IE, while as Outlook version 2010 and version 2013 use Word as the rendering engine for displaying html emails. So I believe there is no way to get them to work in Outlook.
One more point is that when this code is executed in Outlook, it will ignore everything that is inside style tags. You should give style as inline for Outlook emails.
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/
I'm designing an HTML Newsletter and I've run into this problem:
As you can see, the cellspacing is completely out of whack: there shouldn't (and CAN'T) be a space between the rows on the left and right column. I don't really know what the culprit could be, any ideas would be appreciated!
Here's the relevant source code:
<table width="740" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="1">
<tr>
<td colspan="3">
<img src="top.jpg" width="740" height="53">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" height="200" valign="top" id="headerCell">
<img src="header.jpg" width="740" height="200" alt="Headerbild">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
L
</td>
<td valign="top" width="600" bgcolor="#ffffff">
CONTENT
</td>
<td>
R
</td>
</tr>
The HTML looks fine to me. Have you tried eliminating the unnecessary whitespace? That could be a possible cause (also, remember the great IE6, which had whitespace issues).
The HTML rendering engines in e-mail clients are just horrible. I've had to design some newsletters a while back and it sucked big time. Here's a nice collection of tips, maybe it'll be of some help.
I finally found out what was causing this spacing: a padding-top set on the center cell caused the left and right cells top edge to stay flush with the content-top of the center cell.