I am having trouble making a rounded button with images.. the button displays fine in a browser but inside an email client (this includes yahoo and gmail) the button breaks..
here is the HTML table code that i am using:
<table width="144" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="background-color: #9C084A">
<tr>
<td width="12"><img src="http://thehotdeal.net/clients/1/padma/1.gif" width="12" height="12" border="0" alt="...">
</td>
<td width="130"></td>
<td width="12">
<img src="http://thehotdeal.net/clients/1/padma/2.gif" width="12" height="12" border="0" alt="...">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"></td>
<td align="center">
<p style="padding: 0"> <span mc:edit="date" style="color: #ffffff;">2012 - $25</span></p>
</td>
<td cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<img src="http://thehotdeal.net/clients/1/padma/3.gif" width="12" height="12" border="0" alt="...">
</td>
<td cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"></td>
<td>
<img src="http://thehotdeal.net/clients/1/padma/4.gif" width="12" height="12" border="0" alt="...">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Here is how this looks.. notice a line below it..!
There are a few elements could be altered to make this render better cross client:
display:block; on your images
put your background color on each td individually using bgcolor="#9C084A"
explicitly set width and height on each td
use valign on your images if need be
Here is the jsfiddle with these alterations - http://jsfiddle.net/X5QTR/
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My email is comprised of a set of images - some full-width rows containing a full-width image, while other full-width rows contain two 50%-width images.
The single-asset rows are centering, but the 2-asset rows are not.
Any suggestions as to how to address this?
<table width="100%" bgcolor="#F9F8F8" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" align="center" style="padding:0;margin:0;border-collapse:collapse;mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;">
<!-- SINGLE-WIDE Image, Flush : BEGIN -->
<tr>
<td class="full-width-image" align="center" style="mso-table-lspace:0 !important;mso-table-rspace:0 !important;">
<img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/df9c3a35085c40dd1033b83bf/images/0f9cfabb-011b-4af6-9962-0d097a3a884a.jpg" width="800" alt="" border="0" style="width: 100%;max-width: 800px;height: auto;display: block;vertical-align: text-top;" class="img-fullwidth">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="full-width-image" align="center" style="mso-table-lspace:0 !important;mso-table-rspace:0 !important;">
<img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/df9c3a35085c40dd1033b83bf/images/c3fa45e0-1954-491a-b567-a0f39b19ea15.jpg" width="800" alt="" border="0" style="width: 100%;max-width: 800px;height: auto;display: block;vertical-align: text-top;" class="img-fullwidth">
</td>
</tr>
<!-- SINGLE-WIDE Image: END -->
<!-- DOUBLE-WIDE Image, Flush : BEGIN -->
<tr style="display:block;">
<td class="full-width-image" align="center" style="mso-table-lspace:0 !important;mso-table-rspace:0 !important;">
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" width="100%" >
<tr>
<td class="stack-column-center" align="center">
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td style="padding:0px;text-align:center;">
<img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/df9c3a35085c40dd1033b83bf/images/80c28595-a6cc-43e1-9e5c-f581a77064f7.jpg" width="400" alt="" border="0" class="fluid" style="display: block;">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td class="stack-column-center">
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
<tr>
<td style="padding:0px;text-align:center;">
<img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/df9c3a35085c40dd1033b83bf/images/9e708022-b8f2-4528-89b0-95b51dd73caa.jpg" width="400" alt="" border="0" class="fluid" style="display: block;">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
I am trying to do the following design
So my outer table will have 2 table rows.
The first table row will have 3 td's which will each contain their own inner table (tables represented by colour shading in the design).
So my first table rows tds look like this
<table width="650" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center">
<tr>
<td>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><img src="image1.jpg" alt="" width="186" height="20" border="0" style="display: block;"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><img src="image4.jpg" alt="" width="34" height="66" border="0" style="display: block;"></td>
<td><img src="image5.jpg" alt="" width="120" height="66" border="0" style="display: block;"></td>
<td><img src="image6.jpg" alt="" width="32" height="66" border="0" style="display: block;"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><img src="image12.jpg" alt="" width="186" height="20" border="0" style="display: block;"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><img src="image2.jpg" alt="" width="67" height="106" border="0" style="display: block;"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td colspan="4"><img src="image3.jpg" alt="" width="397" height="26" border="0" style="display: block;"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><img src="image7.jpg" alt="" width="178" height="25" border="0" style="display: block;"></td>
<td><img src="image8.jpg" alt="" width="83" height="25" border="0" style="display: block;"></td>
<td><img src="image9.jpg" alt="" width="15" height="25" border="0" style="display: block;"></td>
<td><img src="image10.jpg" alt="" width="121" height="25" border="0" style="display: block;"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="4"><img src="image11.jpg" alt="" width="397" height="55" border="0" style="display: block;"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Now everything looks fine, just how it should do. I am not too sure if I have done the colspans correctly though?
Anyways, moving onto the second table row, I have the following
<table width="650" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center">
<tr>
//first table row data
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="4">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><img src="image13.jpg" alt="" width="33" height="122" border="0" style="display: block;"></td>
<td><img src="image14.jpg" alt="" width="255" height="122" border="0" style="display: block;"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><img src="image15.jpg" alt="" width="362" height="122" border="0" style="display: block;"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
As soon as I add the second row, my design messes up. Essentially, I end up with my design looking something like the following
How can I avoid this from happening? I think it may be to do with my colspans, not too sure though.
Thanks
A couple huge things..
Where is this appearing? Outlook I presume, what version(s)?
define inline widths and max-width for each element where width is a concern, do it inline within table HTML. Maintain outer table wrapping all elements within. If main outer table element is ignored. Nest a few tables as wrappers until elements are contained to desired layout. Use CSS but do it inline.
Read this article.
I am trying to create a "cool" email signature for my company using only text and html with NO images whatsoever. I am trying to recreate our company's logo using only tables since it is basically a four cell table with different bg colors. What seemed easy at first has become quite a nuisance. It obviously looks good in browsers but once I paste it into Outlook 2013 the cells don't retain their height and width values. Any suggestions on how to make this work across most current email clients??
http://codepen.io/anon/pen/wqaLm
Firstly, a good technique is to style your cells inline like:
<td style="width:10px; height:10px;">
Secondly: have a look at this article: "A complete breakdown of the CSS support for every popular mobile, web and desktop email client"
Here is a basic example. Not sure exactly what the logo looks like, so here are a few versions. If you want to have the gap between the cells smaller than 20px, you need to use the 3rd technique. This is because Outlook has a min-height on cells of around 19px which will create a larger gap between the rows.
<table width="100" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td width="50" height="50" bgcolor="#333333">
</td>
<td width="50" height="50" bgcolor="#555555">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="50" height="50" bgcolor="#444444">
</td>
<td width="50" height="50" bgcolor="#666666">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<br><br>
<table width="100" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td width="40" height="40" bgcolor="#333333">
</td>
<td width="20" height="40">
</td>
<td width="40" height="40" bgcolor="#555555">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="40" height="20">
</td>
<td width="20" height="20">
</td>
<td width="40" height="20">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="40" height="40" bgcolor="#444444">
</td>
<td width="20" height="40">
</td>
<td width="40" height="40" bgcolor="#666666">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<br><br>
<table width="60" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td width="30" height="30" align="left" valign="top">
<table width="25" height="25" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#333333">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td width="30" height="30" align="right" valign="top">
<table width="25" height="25" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#555555">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="30" height="30" align="left" valign="bottom">
<table width="25" height="25" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#444444">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td width="30" height="30" align="right" valign="bottom">
<table width="25" height="25" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#666666">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
I am trying to create an email template like following. I have used table. I am able to do everything except the image is not displayed at proper position. The images should be displayed in middle and on top of the container(see screen 1), but I am not able accomplished it. I have tried to provide negative margin to container, but gmail and other mail services are ignoring the negative margin.
Here's what I was able to accomplishd till so far.
The code is present here. Can anyone please help with this?
Updated answer:
You can't use negative margin in html email. To mimic this, there are 2 ways to do it, the nested tables way and the more complex rowspan way:
<!-- The nested way -->
<table width="500" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#CCCCCC"><!-- coloring the whole table instead of just the cells you want, will stop gaps forming on forwarding from Outlook -->
<tr>
<td width="200" height="80" bgcolor="#007700">
<table width="100%" height="80" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td height="40" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="40" bgcolor="#CCCCCC">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td width="100" height="80" bgcolor="#4444FF">
<img alt="" src="" width="100" height="80" style="margin: 0; border: 0; padding: 0; display: block;">
</td>
<td width="200" height="80" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<table width="100%" height="80" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td height="40" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="40" bgcolor="#CCCCCC">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="500" height="200" colspan="3">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<br><br>
<!-- The fancy rowspan way -->
<table width="500" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#CCCCCC"><!-- coloring the whole table instead of just the cells you want, will stop gaps forming on forwarding from Outlook -->
<tr>
<td width="200" height="40" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
</td>
<td width="100" height="80" rowspan="2" bgcolor="#4444FF">
<img alt="" src="" width="100" height="80" style="margin: 0; border: 0; padding: 0; display: block;">
</td>
<td width="200" height="40" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="200" height="40">
</td>
<td width="200" height="40">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="500" height="200" colspan="3">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Original answer:
For basic positioning:
Horizontally, use align="left|center|right", vertically use valign="top|middle|bottom"
Here is how to place an image center top of a table:
<table width="500" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#CCCCCC">
<tr>
<td height="500" align="center" valign="top">
<img alt="" src="" width="100" height="100" style="margin: 0; border: 0; padding: 0; display: block;">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
As I said:
If it was me i would make the top border and the image a row. – Alex
Thomas 23 mins ago
Change you top row to:
<td valign="bottom">
<b style="border-top-left-radius:5px; background-color:#fff; display:block; border:3px solid #a3a9ac; border-bottom:0; height:100%; margin:0; padding-bottom:20px; border-right:none;"> </b>
</td>
<td class="text-center" width="64">
<img class="top-image" src="https://cdn1.iconfinder.com/data/icons/WPZOOM_Social_Networking_Icon_Set/64/gmail.png"> </td>
<td valign="bottom">
<b style="border-top-right-radius:5px; background-color:#fff; display:block; border:3px solid #a3a9ac; border-bottom:0; height:100%; margin:0; padding-bottom:20px; border-left:none;"> </b>
</td>
check out the result - http://jsfiddle.net/562ux.
I've not tested this in a email Client, but as #Kheema Pandey says, you should try to use inline styles.
It is a good practice to use inline style while creating newsletter. Also outlook doesn't support margin negative property.
in your case the image is not appear center so you can use a inline style here 'style="text-align:center;"'.
<td style="text-align:center;">
<img class="top-image" src="https://cdn1.iconfinder.com/data/icons/WPZOOM_Social_Networking_Icon_Set/64/gmail.png" />
</td>
I am experience a gap between the header and the body only in Outlook 2013. Below is a screen-shot to hot it looks in outlook:
Here is what it should look like:
My header HTML code:
<!-- start header -->
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" align="center" width="580" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" >
<tr>
<td width="241" height="51" valign="top" height="51" style="line-height: 51px;">
<img src="http://limus.dev.limusdesign.com/fordfoundation/emails/ford-invitation-template/logo.png" style="display:block;">
</td>
<td width="179" height="51" valign="top" bgcolor="#00b0ed" style="background:#00b0ed;" style="line-height: 51px;" ></td>
<td width="1" height="51" valign="top" style="line-height: 51px;" ></td>
<td width="159" height="51" valign="top" style=" text-align:center; font-size:14px; " style="line-height: 51px;" >
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="159" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align:center;" border="0" height="51">
<tr>
<td width="159" align="left" valign="top" height="12" style="line-height:12px;" ><img src="http://limus.dev.limusdesign.com/fordfoundation/emails/ford-invitation-template/invitation.png" style="display:block;" height="12"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="159" align="left" valign="top" style="background:#00B0ED;" > <img src="http://limus.dev.limusdesign.com/fordfoundation/emails/ford-invitation-template/blank.png" style="display:block;" height="5"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="159" align="left" valign="top" style="text-align:center; background:#00B0ED; " height="26" > <span style="color:#fff; text-decoration:none; font-weight:100; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align:center; font-size:14px ">INVITATION</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="159" align="left" valign="top" style="background:#00B0ED;" > <img src="http://limus.dev.limusdesign.com/fordfoundation/emails/ford-invitation-template/blank.png" style="display:block;" height="8"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="100%" align="left" valign="top" colspan="4" height="1"><img src="http://limus.dev.limusdesign.com/fordfoundation/emails/ford/images/blank.jpg" height='1' width="1" style="display:block;"></td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- end header -->
This will probably help:
http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/post/3795/outlook-2013-says-no-to-empty-table-cells
Basically, it's a padding issue with outlook - and it's related to font sizing. That's quite an old problem from waaaay back in the day of table based website layouts and the old tricks of setting font size to 1px, or using nasty old 1x1px transparent gif files :)
Use this in your stylesheet
table { border-collapse:collapse;mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;}
table td {border-collapse: collapse;}
And inline for each table declare
table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"
To get the 1 pixel white space between each cell use nested tables. and declare the table like so
table border="1" border-color="#ffffff" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"