I am greatly confused about designing an email template for a mailchimp campaign. I want to know if I can use a div with a class of "Container" on my email template. Is using div tags supported by all mail clients? I am using DIV only for the container but in the inner part of the template I have used table, tr and td tags. Please let me know.
Thanks.
You can use div, however tables are supported more consistently. If you try to go the div route, you'll find some of your CSS will fail.
Also, by going with tables, it opens up the old school html attributes that only work in tables. These include align, valign, bgcolor etc, all of which are 100% supported, while their CSS equivalents have partial support.
On a side note, here are all the resources you will need to get started in html email.
As of April 2017, yes, you can use <div> tags in email. Outlook was the only major email client that didn't support them.
See https://github.com/rodriguezcommaj/principles-of-email-design and https://www.sendwithus.com/resources/templates
There is no specifications for layout using table-less nor tables. However, using tables is the preferred way as it renders all at once. This aligns with how email templates render; while div's render separately. If you use div's include your css inline to the template as some clients do not support external css.
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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 a html newsletter page. I need to send it to the given mail id. In Outlook , I'm unable to see the my styled html page but in browser css and inline style works perfectly. So why in Outlook does not work inline or Css style?
To get good cross-compatibility it's wise to go with last centuries web practices.
Use tables for structure, style inline, use pixel measurements and be prepared for images to fail.
These basics provide robust results in most clients.
Its best to also avoid background images since these wont work either in outlook.
We have an single-page web app that displays emails. Some of the emails we're viewing contain style elements that, when loaded into the DOM, affect our entire app. What's the best way to prevent this from happening? I'm currently removing style elements using the HtmlAgilityPack as shown in the post below, but I'm wondering if there's an easier way.
Regex to remove body tag attributes (C#)
Use iframes. That will put the message into a separate document, and there will be no styling interference.
Since you said html emails, the only way to make the Css work is to give inline css style's. External CSS will never work on html mails.
I have no idea what's going on now. I threw together a simple page with very simple CSS. I used tables cause i know you can't use div elements like normal for emails. So after viewing it in my browser, it looks like this:
http://i.stack.imgur.com/8FBtf.png
And after sending it through mail (the cells data has been replaced):
http://i.stack.imgur.com/tuXvA.png
So the CSS doesn't apply at all!
Here's the HTML and CSS:
http://pastebin.com/PySeeW4m
Any ideas?
Most e-mail clients only read the CSS if it is provided inline through style= tags, Mailchimp provides a great tool to do this automatically:
CSS Inliner Tool
CSS in e-mail is only partially supported and support differs greatly amongst clients. Have a look at http://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/
You probably need to have all CSS inline for more compatibility.
please consider that f.i. gmail strips out style definitions from the HTML template.
You can use a workaround and include style information direct in the element like this
<div style="width:150px">...</div>
To use your css like it is right now just use a css parser and attach it to the elements via a regular expression
Regards
I'm writing a webmail product and some emails have body css that changes the background ... so when I Html.Decode() that emailbody, it's altering the CSS of the entire page.
Is there a good way to contain that problem?
You can make your CSS more specific than the email's rules. For example:
body.body is more specific than .body or body
Any styles in body.body that clash with those in the lesser examples above, will override. But to stop the styles merging together, you'll need to define every single style.
Alternatively you can go with rewriting the CSS in the emails, which is the way most webmail/desktop email clients go these days, one way or the other. If you prefix all the rules with #emailMessage, for example, and place the email inside a <div id="emailMessage"></div> tag, all the styles in the email will only apply inside that namespace.
Using an iframe to display emails only introduces more problems based around accessibility, etc etc. Good luck.
The answer to your question is probably "iframe", but in your specific situation, writing a webmail client is going to introduce you to a wonderful new hell called "stripping css from possibly extremely invalid html generated by a large variety of clients that all have their own ideas about what kind of html should be allowed in an email".
Good luck!
A common way is to use iframe, although i'm not sure this is applicable for your problem.
Basically it loads a different html page inside another page. Which makes it independent, but it does mean you have 2 pages to display one email.
http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tag_iframe.asp