This sample code doesn't work as expected in IE 10 (the inner table don't get the remaining space). I take off .css and other elements to just highlight my question.
I would like to take the inner table to get all space between the 50px line of top and the 30px line of bottom. In another doctype it's work but I must work with this doctype in my project.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html style="height: 100%">
<body style="height: 100%">
<table style="height: 100%">
<tr style="height: 50px">
<td>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<table style="height: 100%; background: #f00">
<tr>
<td>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 30px">
<td>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Actually this does not work in IE9 as well. It is not a bug, it is an expected behavior of IE's rendering engine.
Your inner table is not stretched because it ignores height:100%. This is because DOM element must have immediate parent with specified height CSS property in some units (height: auto is not counting). If you specify height on TD (parent of inner TABLE), than it will work. But you cannot specify height: 100%-50px-30px for TD, so this markup is bad for layout you want to achieve.
Your layout is a clasic header-body-footer with fixed heights of header and footer and automatically stretched body. This is a very popular layout in the web. There are a lot of ways to make it work cross-browserly (IE, Chrome, Firefox, Safari).
My favourite option to make it work cross-browserly (including IE7):
Use three DIV's, for header and footer specify height explicitly, and for body make position:absolute; top:<header-height>; bottom:<foooter-height> . Also all three DIV's are needing to be wrapped in one absolutely positioned container.
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I’m going through the horror of trying to make HTML e-mail templates that look acceptable in Outlook, and quickly nearing the point of hara-kiri.
I have a basic table setup: three columns, with all content in the middle one. The columns on the side are just there to give spacing. The table has a width of 100% so it takes up the entire width of the reading window. So essentially this (with all the Outlook-specific crud left out):
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="leftsidespacer"></td>
<td class="maincontent">
<p>All the content here</p>
<div class="thisisabox">
<p>Something here too</p>
</div>
</td>
<td class="rightsidespacer"></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
In any normal e-mail client, this is a piece of cake. You set a width on the middle column and that’s pretty much it. Outlook 2007 (and probably other versions) instead collapses all three columns so the middle column takes up 100% of the body width. Basically, setting a width on a table cell has no effect.
All right, so I fall back on really old-time ways of adding an image in the empty cells to force them to have some width. Ugly and stupid, but at least it sorta-kinda works.
The problem I’m facing now, which I mysteriously cannot find anyone even mentioning online, is that any element that I put inside a td always ends up being 100% of the width of the cell and the height of the content, no matter what I do.
The div with the class thisisabox in the example above, for example, always ends up being just one line of text in height and 100% of the table cell, even if I define it thus:
<div width="200" height="200"
style="display: block;
width: 200px;
height: 200px;
background: red;">
Everything in me screams that this should produce a 200 × 200 pixel red box, but it doesn’t. It just gets ignored completely.
As far as I can tell, there is nothing in my styles which ought to have any influence on this. The entirety of the styles declarations I have for the bits in the HTML snippet above is this:
table {
width: 100%;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
table, tr, td {
border-collapse: collapse;
}
td {
padding: 35px 0;
border: 0;
}
(It gets inlined and HTML-attributified by the Premailer API before sending, so it’s not because the styles are only declared in the head.)
Is there some way of making Outlook notice specified width and height of elements inside a table cell?
Or am I missing something really obvious that’s making Outlook behave in this infuriating way?
Outlook does not work with div and it in some instances ignores padding.
https://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/box-model/padding/
The way to fix this is simple and it will work with every email client:
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Untitled</title>
</head>
<body>
<table width="200" height="200" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="leftsidespacer" width="30"></td>
<td class="maincontent" width="140">
<p>All the content here</p>
<div class="thisisabox">
<p>Something here too</p>
</div>
</td>
<td class="rightsidespacer" width="30"></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</body>
</html>
I would create a style sheet and add the values which will be picked up by most modern email clients, but Outlook desktop versions like 2007-2016 require a few inline aids to function properly.
Edit: Base table in Outlook 2007
This is the base table in Outlook 2007 with no extra css that I posted above:
This image came out of Litmus.
I only used the code I posted above. If you are not seeing this, something in your CSS or HTML is causing an issue.
Good luck.
Here is something you can try.
Code:
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="200" height="200" bgcolor="#000000">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td height="200"></td>
<td valign="top" style="color:#ffffff;">
All content here
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Result in Outlook version 1803 (tested: 20/04/2018)
What I have done is added a height to the table element as well as one of the cells. You can either populate the left column with a spacer image or keep it as it is.
Note: You can make do without the left column if you wish but do add the height
Hope this is the answer you were looking for.
Is there an alternative to negative positioning in HTML emails? The image in the second table below is positioned 100px up using negative positioning. I need that image to overlap somewhat with the content above.
<table>
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="400" style="padding-right:10px;">
<p style="color:#575757;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;font-weight:normal;font-family:'Century Gothic'; text-align:justify;">Lorem Impsum</p>
</td>
<td><img src="kneeler.jpg" /></td>
</tr>
</table>
<table>
<tr>
<td style="position:relative; top:-100px;"><img src="shoes.jpg" /></td>
<td valign="top" width="400" style="padding-left:10px;">
<p style="color:#575757;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;font-weight:normal;font-family:'Century Gothic'; text-align:justify;">Lorem ipsum</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
I've tried padding-top: -100px; but that did not work. Please help!
You can do this by wrapping the element above in a div and setting the height of the wrapper to be less than the actual height of the element. (for example, height:200px if the element is naturally 300px and you want 100px of overlap) The element will overflow the wrapper, but the next element will start where the wrapper ends.
See answer here:How to position an element on top of another element without using position and margin?
And the example:
https://jsfiddle.net/acq3ob6y/1/
Negative values are mostly unsupported in html email. So is CSS position. For webmail at least, this is so that your email doesn't render outside of the desired window. Imagine Gmail with your CSS or email affecting the interface - they've limited the CSS you can use specifically to prevent this.
The only way to accomplish an image overlapping the container is to fake it. See this similar question for an example
I wonder why IE doesn't seem to recognize the width I specify?
Basically I have this code:
<table>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="right" class="left_frame"></td>
</tr>
</table>
CSS:
.left_frame {
background: url(images/side.gif) repeat-y;
width: 17px;
}
Even if I add width="17" inside the <td></td> tags, the width still doesn't change. This is quite frustrating because the problem seems to be very simple.
I'd say it's because there's no content in your <td>
Try adding a in there so the cell has some content, and see how that goes.
Alternatively, placing a height on the cell may work as well, depending on your requirements.
Basically the cell is a flat line at the moment, and needs something to tell it how tall it is, in order to draw the background in.
Example: http://jsfiddle.net/MvBf5/
Here's a piece of code to illustrates my problem:
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<style>
html, body {height:100%;margin:0;padding:0;}
table {border-collapse:collapse;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table width='100%' height='100%'>
<tr>
<td>
header
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign='top' height='100%'>
<table width='100%' height='100%' bgcolor='red'>
<tr>
<td>test</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Page that I'm currently building has a header and a table below it, table must take all the vertical space available but must not exceed the screen height. Code above works fine in FF/Chrome/Safari but in IE nested table does exceeds the screen height exactly by the height of header above thus causing vertical scrollbar which is an undesired behavior.
How can this be fixed?
IE is not good about calculating heights in tables. In this case, it's setting the cell height to 100% of the body and html rather than its parent container.
Easiest thing to do, but also an ugly hack, is to put
<!–- For Internet Explorer -–> on a line above <!DOCTYPE HTML>
This will force IE into quirksmode and should render properly for your case. You may have to restart IE rather than simply refresh the page after adding the comment.
Change
html, body {height:100%;margin:0;padding:0;}
to
html, body {height:100%;margin:0;padding:0; overflow-y: hidden;}
It will remove the vertical scroll-bar from the IE (or any web browser)
I have a table nested as such:
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<table>...
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
More precisely:
some style info:
div.centered{
text-align: center;
height:100%;
}
div.centered table.centeredT {
margin: 0 auto;
text-align: left;
max-width: 781px;
overflow: hidden;
height:100%;
}
Layout:
<table style="height:100%; min-height:100%;" class="centeredT" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="781px" >
<tr>
<td style="vertical-align:top; padding-bottom:7px;padding-right:5px;width:33%;height:100%;">
<table style="table-layout:fixed;height:100%;min-height:100%;border:solid 1px black;" border="0" id="Table1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="verdanaSmall" width="257px" >
<!--this first row is simply a spacer row because I am using table-layout:fixed attribute -->
<tr>
<td width="80px"></td>
<td width="175px"></td>
</tr>
<tr >
<td colspan="2" style="height:100%;">
<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-top: solid 1px black; border-bottom: solid 1px black;">
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;"> 1.) </td>
<td align="center" height="20">
<a href="results.asp?pubid=31422&date=10%2F11%2F2010&ttype=eqq"target="_top">
<font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#22476C"><b> Abilene Reporter News </b></font>
</a>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align: center;"><font face="Verdana" size="1" color="#22476C"> Monday, October 11, 2010 </font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" colspan="2" height="100%" id="imagetd">
<a href="../PDFView/PDFView.aspx?pgID=32065209&adID=96332396&ref=50" target="_blank">
<img src="/pages/201010/11/31422/thumbs/A000300001H.gif" style="border: solid 1px black;" alt="" />
</a>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
The reason for this is that the page is filled dynamically and the inner table is inserted inside a data loop. Anyway, the question is that the inner table is not filling 100% of the available height of the encapsulating td cell. I have set the inner table height, via css, to 100%, the encapsulating table, and also the body tag and so on up the chain. If you look at the page in firefox and opera it lays out perfect but IE does not seem to be obeying the height specifics and just making the table big enough to display the data, does anybody know of a hack/fix for IE, or a way I can correct this..?
As the problem describes: the td-element itself does automatically stretch to 100%, but (in IE) for some reason its height is not passed to its children as 100%.
The solution is quite simple: just add 'height: 100%' to the td-element that is parent of the nested table. This way 100% height will be passed to the td's children when using height: 100%; on them.
It fixes the problem in IE and doesn't seem to cause any problems in other browsers (tested on new browsers Chrome, Firefox and IE).
NOTE: setting the td's height to 100% with an nested table may cause the cell to expand too much. In that cause the height may have to be adjusted to compensate the height of the other rows. With CSS3 this can be easiliy achieved with calc(100% - [height of other rows])
PS: I'm aware that the above question is really old, but I stumbled upon this while googling for a simular problem and it seems no (correct) answer has been provided to this one. For others who will find this page just like I did, it might be helpfull to find an
answer.
Try set padding:0px; on cointaner and inner table.
Ok I havent tested anything but it doesnt look like you have set the inner table height to 100%. You have a class table.centeredT but you have not specified the class on the table. Nor have you specified height: 100% on the inner table itself. Give me a few more minutes and I will try to achieve this on jsfiddle.
Edit: One thing which did just occur to me - which wont be causing the problem but just decreases the code a bit - is that you could use the col attribute instead of an extra row at the top. I have heard that this isnt 100% supported, but I have never had a problem with it personally.
Edit: Ok I have no idea... spent ages on this and not getting anywhere. I personally havent used tables in months - I am good enough at divs, float and clear and alike that I can easily make what looks like a table without a table. If I had to display data in a meaningful way then I would use a table. Is this for displaying data, or can it be displayed just using divs / float / clear?
You need to have fixed heights of the elements that should be spanned to 100% height. Fixed heights means you'll have to set them in pixel height instead of percentage. See this SO question and solution with similar code:
Iframe { height:70%;} not working in IE 8 and Firefox