I am getting a line across a table I made in an html email. It is in the orange area. I'm not really sure what is causing is. There is no images in there. Here is my code for that table.
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="625" align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<tr>
<td height="23" bgcolor="#f08122" colspan="3"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="23" bgcolor="#f08122"></td>
<td bgcolor="#f08122" valign="middle" style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color:#FFFFFF;" align="center"><span style="font-size:30px; line-height:36px; font-weight:bold;"><strong>Improve outcomes and empower patients with health logs</strong></span><br /><br />
<span style="font-size:27px;">Order now and get <strong>10% more FREE!*</strong></span></td>
<td width="23" bgcolor="#f08122"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="23" bgcolor="#f08122" colspan="3"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="5" colspan="3"></td>
</tr>
</table>
Here is the link to the actual email also if you wanted an active view: https://tagwebstore.com/email/tag-email-logbooks.html
Here is a screenshot of the html email from my iPhone.
The lines appear to be above and below the white text. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
The borders appear when a background color or image is applied to individual table cells.
you can try:
Removing background colors or images from individual table rows and
cells, and/or;
Nesting the problem table in a new table, featuring a background color that matches that of the inner table.
source
Also, setting style="display: block;" on the img element consistently helps all images position exactly, in tandem with the above suggestions.
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I'm designing a newsletter template and I'm having an issue with a table that contains graphics and text in the same row. For some reason, the graphic pushes the text all the way to the right. I'd like the text to be "connected"/left aligned with the icon as the template uses up to 3 icon sets (icon + text).
https://jsfiddle.net/o1dLoxa8/
The code doesn't look pretty right now as I've been trying everything just to make it work. Anyone able to help me out?
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="salesListText">
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="middle" class="saleslistIcon">
<img src="http://dyreparken-nyhetsbrev.s3.amazonaws.com/ikon/billetterL.png" alt="" height="28" width="28" />
</td>
<td align="left" valign="middle" class="saleslistIconText">
Billetter
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="baseline" colspan="3">
<h2>Kaptein Sabeltann - Kun forestillingen</h2>
(Kan kombineres med parkbilletter og/eller overnatting)
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="baseline">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="salesListSpec">
<tr>
<td valign="baseline" colspan="3">
<h4>Pakken inneholder:</h4>
- Billetter til forestillingen
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top" class="saleslistPrice" colspan="3">
<h2 style="color:#E3178A;"><span>Pris fra </span>240,-</h2>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
.saleslistIcon{padding-right:10px;}
.saleslistIconText{color:#B4B4B4; font-size:12px; padding-right:8px;}
.salesListText{width:100%;}
.salesListSpec{padding-top:10px; line-height:170%; display:block;}
h2 span{font-size:16px; font-weight:normal; color:#444444;}
You've got a table that has three columns; but you're jamming the image (small) and body text (large) in the same column (0). That will push columns 2, and 3 way to the right.
Try putting border="1" onto your table definition to see what I mean.
I'd suggest you use the outer table to create your rows and have only a single TD. Inside each TD then embed secondary tables for complicated layout. I'm assuming an email newsletter, so keep your CSS to a minimum or put it inline rather than a separate style section. A lot of email providers don't play nicely with CSS.
Hope that helps.
From the look of your fiddle, this is to be expected. You're using a table layout, meaning that all cells in the same column will have the same width and all cells in the same row will have the same height. My immediate recommendation is to ditch the table layout and use semantic elements.
If you're hellbent on using a table layout, you need to be aware of your colspan and rowspan attributes on your cells and how they affect your layout.
Put display:inline inside <tr> where you have the icon + text.
http://jsfiddle.net/zg0zrx3v/
I've checked out a few posts, and tried them. Didn't work. This may become a decision and tell clients this is what it is, but I don't want to come to that.
So after testing with Litmus, my main issue is the borders(left and right) vs the top and bottom image not lining up correctly on outbook 2007/10 vs everything else.
<body>
<style type="text/css">
body{
color:#415b7c;
font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size:12px;
padding:0;
margin:0;
}
table {border-collapse: collapse;}
</style>
<table width="100%" bgcolor="#ffffff">
<tr>
<td><!-- header -->
<table width="600" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr valign="bottom">
<td>
<table width="600" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;">
<tr><td>
<img src="http://wearehmc.com/emailTemp/VSAC/top.png" width="600" style="display:block">
</td></tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td>
<table width="600" align="left" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="border-left-style:solid; border-left-color:#3d5b83; border-left-width:2px; border-right-style:solid; border-right-color:#3d5b83; border-right-width:2px; border-collapse: collapse; ">
<tr>
<td>
client log
</td>
<td>
<table cellpadding="10" style="color:#576276;">
<tr>
<td>
<p style="font-weight:bold">
Text
</p>
<p>
text
</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td>
client logo
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<table width="600" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td style="color:#ffffff; font-size:22px; font-weight:500; line-height:30px">
<table width="600" align="left" bgcolor="#659acf" cellpadding="20" style="border-left-style:solid; border-collapse: collapse; border-left-color:#3d5b83; border-left-width:2px; border-right-style:solid; border-right-color:#3d5b83; border-right-width:2px; border-collapse:collapse;">
<tr>
<td style="color:#ffffff; font-size:24px; ">
text
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<table width="600" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr><td>
<img src="http://wearehmc.com/emailTemp/VSAC/bottom.png" width="600" style="display:block">
</td></tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr></table>
I've taken out client copy and logos.
As I've said it may come down to a decision of not letting it line up in outlook 2007/10, while letting it work in others.
So if anyone has any suggestions, it would be most helpful.
For outlook (And gmail) You need to specify border="0" on your images.
<img src="/" width="" height="" alt="" border="0" style="display:block">
This should be on every image you use in your email, even spacers. (In fact, especially on spacers, since those will create unwanted empty space without any content)
Also, Outlook has trouble rendering cell-padding and spacing (2007 and 2010 both use microsoft WORD as their rendering engine, I'll let you imagine how great that is to render html-emails).
So you should really be using nested tables instead of cell-padding, with spacer images to create the inner spaces of your sections.
Oh, and I see that all your styling is not inline. This will cause problems with your html-email stability. (gmail will strip every styling that is not inline, as well as the #000000 color on links (use #000001 instead)).
Oh also. Border styles and colors. Those will not display properly everywhere. The solution is again nested tables. With bgcolor and 1 / 2px width spacers to give the illusion of borders.
Hope this all helps. (I know this sounds like a lot of errors in your html-email, but once you get the hang of coding for the worst possible mail clients in mind, it'll become second nature! ;) )
I have a design of an email template, and I am tinkering about the best way to tackle the styling of the following element in HTML/CSS. Note a few things:
Since it's for an HTML email, mainly tables will be used.
Using negative margins will probably not be compatible with different mail clients.
Note the white border around the button
Would you recommend using a background image for this entire block? Or is there an elegant way that will look like this and works across clients.
Here's my set-up: http://jsfiddle.net/ZHkdV/
Here you go - only need a 30x30 image for the top corner:
<table width="300" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#F1F1F1">
<tr>
<td width="30" height="30">
<img style="margin: 0; border: 0; padding: 0; display: block;" src="" width="30" height="30" alt="">
</td>
<td width="240" height="30">
</td>
<td width="30" height="30">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="30" height="160">
</td>
<td width="240" height="160" valign="top">
<font style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: #757575;">
<br>
some text here
</font>
</td>
<td width="30" height="160">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="300" height="40" colspan="3" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><!-- undeclared light gray as Outlook can add spaces at bottom of this td on forwarding (hides unwanted line) -->
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td width="50" height="20" bgcolor="#F1F1F1">
</td>
<a href="" style="color: #757575; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><!-- css button, you can lose this and put a href'd image in the cell if you prefer. -->
<td width="200" height="40" bgcolor="#CBBCDC" rowspan="2" valign="middle" align="center">
<font style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: #757575;">
BUTTON
</font>
</td>
</a>
<td width="50" height="20" bgcolor="#F1F1F1">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="50" height="20" bgcolor="FFFFFF">
</td>
<td width="50" height="20" bgcolor="FFFFFF">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
This should hold up in all clients...
For e-mail templates, you don't have to worry about validation, so you can use pretty 'hacky' html. One way round client compatibility is to have every row be a table in and of itself, set inside one main 'wrapper' table.
Then you can set as many divisions as you want in each, remembering to reset the borders on each table, row and cell.
Each cell gets it's own image or slice of an image. For the last row you could simply have one image in an anchor tag. Also remember to keep all styling on elements inline.
The html email Boilerplate is pretty much bulletproof.
http://htmlemailboilerplate.com/
<table> <!- Wrapper ->
<tr>
<td>
<table>
<tr>
<td>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Background images aren't very compatible either:
http://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/
I would just slice the last row into 3 separate images (left, button, right).
If you would rather have one image for the whole row, you can also use an image map to just make the button part a link.
For this code, when I add the text in the third table row it ruins the layout of all adjacent cells. Please help.
<table width="720" bgcolor="white" height="650" align="center" cellpadding="10" border="1">
<tr valign="top">
<td colspan="8" height="70" align="center"><img src="yooo.gif" align="middle" /> </td> </tr>
<tr height="40">
<td colspan="2" align="center" width="175">Home</td>
<td colspan="2" align="center" width="175">Food</td>
<td colspan="2" align="center" width="175">Hobbies</td>
<td colspan="2" align="center" width="175">Martin's Blog</td> </tr>
<tr height="260">
<td class="info" colspan="4" valign="top"><h2>Welcome to Nenad's Blog!!!</h2><h6>Here on this blog we will be talking about
a bunch of random stuff that are so completely unrelated that will blow your mind.<h6></td>
<td class="info" colspan="4"> h </td> </tr>
<tr height="260">
<td class="info" colspan="4"> h </td>
<td class="info" colspan="4"> h </td> </tr>
Your table looks good from what I can make of what you posted.
You should, however, not be using tables for layout purposes. They are supposed to be used only for tabular data, you know..like a spreadsheet.
For styling your site, you should be using CSS.
http://jsfiddle.net/3rJv7/
Code Runs
You might have to define what "ruin" means. However my best guess is that all the colspans cause some browsers to calculate the optimum column widths poorly. I found that many browsers handle it better if your first row defines the widths, even if it's a dummy row with spacer images. I know, terrible semantically, but using tables for layouts tend to go that way.
After a lot of time I put into researching. I still can't find an answer.
I have a HTML that is showing the wrong width in my tables. Here is a link to the html email: https://tagwebstore.com/email/tag-email-10percentmore.html and here is a screenshot of how it looks in Outlook 2007:
The main problem is the bottom area. The link of the html email displays it correctly. I have no idea what else to do from here. Here is my code for the bottom part I am having trouble with:
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="625" align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<tr>
<td height="23" colspan="3" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="25"> </td>
<td><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
<tr>
<td><img src="https://www.tagwebstore.com/email/testimonial-top.png" width="573" height="36" style="display:block;" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#f0d7c1" width="573"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="573">
<tr>
<td width="28"></td>
<td style="font-size:11px; line-height:18px; color:#000000; font-style:italic; font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" width="517"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
<tr>
<td style="font-size:11px; line-height:18px; color:#000000; font-style:italic; font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">We’ve been using TAG for a while and we love TAG – we love the products. When we bring the products to Oklahoma City, nobody else has the products. It’s a big plus here for our market area. I think it would be a great thing for people to get online and see what TAG can do for them.</td>
</tr>
<tr align="right">
<td height="40" valign="bottom" style="font-size:11px; line-height:18px; color:#000000; font-style:normal; font-weight:bold; font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Sirron Brown, Marketing Director<br />
Excell Home Care and Hospice, Oklahoma</td>
</tr>
</table></td>
<td width="28"></td>
</tr>
</table></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><img src="https://www.tagwebstore.com/email/testimonial-bottom.png" width="573" height="57" /></td>
</tr>
</table></td>
<td width="25"> </td>
</tr>
</table>
<!--Testimonial End-->
<!--Footer-->
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="625" align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<tr>
<td colspan="3" height="20"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="25"> </td>
<td width="575"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="middle" width="295" style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size:12px;">info#tagwebstore.com | 866.232.6477</td>
<td width="178" style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size:12px;" valign="middle" align="right">Follow us on Twitter & YouTube</td>
<td valign="middle" width="102"><img src="https://www.tagwebstore.com/email/twitter.png" width="49" height="17" border="0" /><img src="https://www.tagwebstore.com/email/youtube.png" width="53" height="21" border="0" /></td>
</tr>
</table></td>
<td width="25"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" height="20"> </td>
</tr>
</table>
<!--Footer End-->
The width of the containing table is suppose to be 625px. Any help is appreciated.
oh the joy of html emails
There are many rules you have to obey when dealing with HTML-based email, especially when you have exacting clients and pixel-perfect designs, and I am quite glad that I haven't had to work on such a project for at least two years now... The main reason for my utter dislike of the practice is primarily down to two email-clients. The first and all time worst being Lotus Notes 6.5.4 (to be fair it's over 10 years old now.. but still!), and the all time second worst(s), they're not even the best at being bad, Outlook 2007 and 2010!
Whoever thought it would be a good idea to use the Microsoft Word WYSIWYG HTML Engine to render HTML Emails in Outlook 2007 and 2010, must have been mad, lazy, lost or ever-so-slightly confused (delete as appropriate). It causes no end of rendering problems for developers, usually with random and inexplicable sizing calculations or padding problems.
Taken from my blog http://blog.pebbl.co.uk/2011/06/collapsible-html-email-and-outlook.html
Simply put, I do not envy you :)
I found the best way to help me out with my email troubles was to follow the following rules:
Never use colspans or rowspans.
Always set correct dimensions for your tables and cells.
Use spacer gifs rather than &nbps;.
Always specify correct image sizes and never scale images up or down.
Always add style="display:block;" to images.
Avoid using divs.
If you wish to colour links, put the styling on a span as a child inside the a tag.
Don't use italics.
Don't use BRs for layout, always use tables.
Use BRs in Text, not Ps (to avoid stange margin problems and paragraphing being completely ignored).
Because the sheer number of emails I used to get through ended up being ridiculous, I developed a script to help me with the work of checking dimensions and other possible pitfalls. If you're interested in using it you can find it here:
http://pastie.org/6250834
The script can be added as a usual script tag or enabled using GreaseMonkey or something similar (it was designed to work with Firefox but I see no reason why it shouldn't work elsewhere). Due to the way I used to build my emails, it will only enable itself if either the following conditions are met:
There is an outer wrapping table that has width="100%" set, used to centre the actual email content.
or... there is an outer element (a table or div) that has the id="base".
I've passed your HTML through it and the image below is the resulting output, it makes more sense when you have the actual page because you can hover over each bordered item and it will give you a rough idea of what the problem is (either that or you can just inspect the element directly with Firebug or similar).
So from inspecting the above it seems you have a few problems that need to be fixed, I'd say the most important ones are to get rid of rowspans and colspans (these always cause problems in Outlook) and to make sure all your dimensions tally correctly. Once you've fixed these issues you might see a considerable improvement, but then again you might not, there are no certainties in the hazardous life of HTML email building...
Hope it helps.
Try this for your top table:
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="625" align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<tr>
<td height="23" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="25"> </td>
<td width="575">
<table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
<tr>
<td>
<img src="https://www.tagwebstore.com/email/testimonial-top.png" width="575" height="36" style="display:block;" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#f0d7c1" width="575">
<table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
<tr>
<td width="28">
</td>
<td width="519" style="font-size:11px; line-height:18px; color:#000000; font-style:italic; font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">
<table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
<tr>
<td style="font-size:11px; line-height:18px; color:#000000; font-style:italic; font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">We’ve been using TAG for a while and we love TAG – we love the products. When we bring the products to Oklahoma City, nobody else has the products. It’s a big plus here for our market area. I think it would be a great thing for people to get online and see what TAG can do for them.
</td>
</tr>
<tr align="right">
<td valign="bottom" style="font-size:11px; line-height:18px; color:#000000; font-style:normal; font-weight:bold; font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Sirron Brown, Marketing Director<br />
Excell Home Care and Hospice, Oklahoma</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td width="28">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<img src="https://www.tagwebstore.com/email/testimonial-bottom.png" width="575" height="57" style="display:block;" />
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td width="25"> </td>
</tr>
</table>
and this for your bottom:
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="625" align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<tr>
<td colspan="3" height="20"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="25"> </td>
<td width="575">
<table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="middle" width="280" style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size:12px;">
info#tagwebstore.com | 866.232.6477
</td>
<td width="193" style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size:12px;" valign="middle" align="right">
Follow us on Twitter & YouTube
</td>
<td valign="middle" width="49">
<img src="https://www.tagwebstore.com/email/twitter.png" width="49" height="17" border="0" style="display:block;" />
</td>
<td valign="middle" width="53">
<img src="https://www.tagwebstore.com/email/youtube.png" width="53" height="21" border="0" style="display:block;" />
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td width="25"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" height="20"> </td>
</tr>
</table>
Overall it was coded really well, just changed a few small things, not saying each was a must have, but IF it works you can reverse engineer the changes to find out what busted it. I haven't tested it, so hopefully this works...