My problem is posted as "solved" here, but apparently I don't understand the solution (?). I have piles of legacy html that appears to be starting to fail in my browser, I dunno why, maybe because of "unsupported" attributes? (Extremely frustrating, by the way. Why eliminate these much simpler attributes that worked fine for decades? I don't give a frickin' rip what anyone thinks of my coding style, as long as it WORKS.)
In particular, I use and the valign doesn't work.
So I tried the following, with never a success:
<td align=center vertical-align:top>
<td text-align:center; vertical-align:top>
<td text-align:center; vertical-align:text-top>
<td vertical-align:text-top>
Now I'm only more frustrated. Any suggestions?
The vertical-align:top is not supposed to occur in the td tag itself. You have to put it in a style="" line or in the CSS rules for td.
Using style="":
<td align="center" style="vertical-align:top">
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top">
<td style="text-align:center; vertical-align:text-top">
<td style="vertical-align:text-top">
For the CSS method, you will have to give a seperate class or id to each td in order for their styles to be different.
You can use valign= top not valign: top or vertical-align: top in your html markup and use vertical-align: top; in css
In your html you could do this
<td align=center valign=top>
In your css stylesheet
td{vertical-align: top;}
And in your inline-style
<td align=center style="vertical-align: top;">
Insted vertical-align:top use valign="top".
Here is your the code:
<td align="center" valign="top">
Note: Never use : in the HTML attributes so instead of using valign:top you should use valign="top"
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Hello guys i am trying to send an email with HTML in it, and of course i know that the formatting and alot of CSS is not supported in Outlook, but i was wondering why this simple thing was showing broken, is there any quick fix or a workaround/alternative? look at how the buttons should appear:
http://puu.sh/84ijt.png
But they appear like this:
http://puu.sh/84ijA.png
Here is the code for it:
<tr>
<td style="display:block;min-height:38px;max-height:38px;">
<p style="margin-left:15px;">
<a style="font-size: 10pt;color: #fff;text-align: center;display:block; width:70px;height:25px;text-decoration:none;background-color: #c64141;padding:5px 5px 0px 5px;border: 1px solid #901313;margin-right:10px;float:left;"
href="link here..">Enquire</a>
Full Details
</p>
</div>
</tr>
</td>
There is a bit of mis-information in this thread.
You can use an image for a button, however more advanced designers are trending towards "bulletproof" buttons these days. They display with images turned off. See this link: buttons.cm
Background images are supported in Outlook, but only in the <body> tag OR using VML, see the buttons.cm link above or backgrounds.cm for examples.
Back to your specific example, there are a few ways to accomplish it, but here is how I would do it:
<table width="300" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border:solid 1px #000000;">
<tr>
<td style="padding-top:20px; padding-bottom:10px;">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td width="50">
</td>
<td width="90" height="30" align="center" valign="middle" bgcolor="#c64141" style="border:solid 1px #000000; font-size:12px;">
Enquire
</td>
<td width="20">
</td>
<td width="90" height="30" align="center" valign="middle" bgcolor="#c64141" style="border:solid 1px #000000; font-size:12px;">
Full Details
</td>
<td width="50">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
On a side note, you need to use the 6-digit hex colors in html email, and don't waste your time with the following css properties as they have inconsistent support:
margin (use padding instead)
text-align (use align="" instead)
min-height & max-height
float (use align="" instead)
background-color (use bgcolor="" instead)
Also, avoid shorthand like padding:5px 5px 0px 5px;. Unfortunately you need to write it out padding:5px; padding-bottom:0;
As an email marketer I suggest you use an image for your button. Especially if it is a call to action. The one thing you don't want to be broken is that, and the only way you can trust it wont be and that is to use an image within a table cell.
I hope that helps!
Have you tried giving the <td> the background-color? (or another container)
You could also try
<a href="#">
<span style="display:block;background-color:red;color:white;width:100px;text-align:center;">link</span>
</a>
I haven't tested in Outlook but it might work.
Using images isn't the best solution, especially since most of the time emails are rendered without images until the user accepts to view images.
The way I do it is a table with in a table, so something like this:
<table width="outside container width here">
<tbody>
<tr>
<table style="apply your styles here, background colors, paddings etc (do not use margins, poorly supported.)" height="height of inner container" width="inner container width here" align="however you want it aligned">
<tbody><tr><td>Your button actually goes here</td></tr></tbody>
</table>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
I'm working on a site targeting older feature phone type mobiles that have limited css and html support. I have a table with a single row and two cells, that each contain a link. Ideally i would like both to be clickable. I tried a div solution but on some of the phone browsers I tested the text would dissapear, I assume because this is not entirely semantical.
Any sugggestions on how to accomplish this without using a div?
here is my html
<div><table style="width:100%;"><tbody><tr>
<td class="leftTd"><Left</div></td>
<td class="rightTd"><a href="link2>Right</a></td>
</tr></tbody></table></div>
The markup of the HTML you gave isn't valid. Here it is as valid markup
<table style="width:100%;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="leftTd">Left</td>
<td class="rightTd">Right</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
then if you make sure the a element are set to display: block; e.g
td a {
display: block;
}
DEMO
td a {
display:block;
width:100%;
height:100%;
}
Also fixed your HTML markup from errors:
<div>
<table style="width:100%;">
<tr>
<td class="leftTd">Left</td>
<td class="rightTd">Right</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
In the first link, you have a stray <.
In the second, you didn't close the quotes after href.
Old phones typically have browsers that won't grok broken HTML syntax very well, so I think this is the reason the links won't render.
I suggest you use an editor that checks HTML syntax, or at least some checker like the W3C validator.
HTML4 event attributes
<table border="0" style="cursor:pointer" onMouseover="window.status='http://www.stackoverflow.com/'" onMouseout="window.status=''" onMouseup="window.location='http://www.stackoverflow.com/'" width="158" height="158" style="background-image: url('http://cdn.sstatic.net/stackoverflow/img/apple-touch-icon.png')">
<tr>
<td style="display:none;">This entire table is a link with no content</td>
</tr>
</table>
I want to align a table data at the top. Example.
data-- I want to align this at top
text.... - this contains a lot of text that makes the first table data at the center
Like this:
klasdjlkasjdlsakjdlk
kldjaslkdjsadkjasldj
dlasjidlaskdjlaksjdl
asdasd ajsdlkasjdlaskjdlkas
laksjdlaksdjsalkdjak
adlksjdlasjdkasjdlka
I want it to be like this.
asdasd klasdjlkasjdlsakjdlk
kldjaslkdjsadkjasldj
dlasjidlaskdjlaksjdl
ajsdlkasjdlaskjdlkas
laksjdlaksdjsalkdjak
adlksjdlasjdkasjdlka
Any ideas?
Define in your css td vertical-align :top and text-align :left
td{vertical-align:top;text-align:left;}
without css
<td valign="top" align="left"> // here your data </td>
Is this just a standard HTML table?
<td valign="top">text</td>
Here is how to do it without CSS:
<table width="100" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
<tr>
<td valign="top">
asdasd
</td>
<td>
klasdjlkasjdlsakjdlk
kldjaslkdjsadkjasldj
dlasjidlaskdjlaksjdl
ajsdlkasjdlaskjdlkas
laksjdlaksdjsalkdjak
adlksjdlasjdkasjdlka
</td>
</tr>
</table>
It is best to do this with CSS, rather than inline as you'll have more flexibility and your code will be leaner and easier to read.
If you only want to do it for particular cells, then consider using classes.
For inline (not recommended), use the following:
<td valign="top">...</td>
To use css, use the following in your stylesheet:
td { vertical-align: top; }
Here is what I have, the only CSS is styling for my tags, so there is no relevant CSS effecting this.
<tr>
<td colspan="2" valign="top"><span style="font-size:20px; color:#ed8f49">Fall Classes with</span><img src="REDACTED.png" height="90" width="482"></td>
</tr>
When I have only the TD things work fine, but as soon as I put that text in a span or try to make it h1 it aligns to the bottom, even if I add alignment attributes to the span as well.
Try:
<td colspan="2" style="vertical-align: top;">
The attribute valign is deprecated and should not be used.
You need align="top" or style="vertical-align:top on your image :)
I'm working on an HTML email campaign (no CSS allowed) so I'm forced to use tables, something I'm not super familiar with. I've got everything looking right EXCEPT the table borders. Whenever I create a new <tr> I cannot for the life of me get rid of the inner border around the content. I have tried a few tricks (border="0px", bordercolor="white", bordercolor="#ffffff", etc), but whenever I send a test message, the borders still show up black around my text and images.
This is really messing with my design flow.
Is there any trick I don't know to getting rid of HTML table borders? Help!
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style = "border-collapse: collapse;">
Apply this:
style = "border-collapse: collapse;"
To every table cell, the border should not be visible anymore.
If the content is an image, try <td valign="top"> for all <td> with images inside.
Besides that, the table tag should be <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" ...>. One more tip, use inline style for the borders that you want.
To get rid of the table borders, use <table border="0">.
Try this:
In head:
<style type="text/css">
table td {border-collapse: collapse;}
</style>
Table:
<table width="300" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="border:2px solid #000000;">
<tr>
<td width="50%" bgcolor="#999999" style="padding:20px;">
...
</td>
<td width="50%" bgcolor="#888888" style="padding:20px;">
...
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="50%" bgcolor="#777777" style="padding:20px;">
...
</td>
<td width="50%" bgcolor="#666666" style="padding:20px;">
...
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Also, always keep cellpadding and cellspacing at zero. Use padding in your cells if you want spacing.
Use <table border="0"> without px?
How about
<table style="border-collapse: collapse;">
<!-- ... -->
</table>
? Such inline CSS should work fine even in HTML email.
Just came across this tip that actually works (at least for iOS):
To prevent [hairline borders] from happening nest the problematic
table into a new table with a background color that matches that of
the inner table.
Source: http://www.informz.com/blog/template-design/quick-tip-removing-hairline-borders-in-html-emails-on-iphone-ipad/ (includes photos of source code)
Following worked for me:
border: 0px solid white;
border-collapse: collapse;