i hate writing email templates.
with that said, i have a pretty good table'd template created yet Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010 is creating a lot of spacing between the TR than I notice in other email clients.
OL 2007 (http://screencast.com/t/YJ5LdTkiGR)
OL 2010 (http://screencast.com/t/Ob1ii370C)
The code is found below. Any help in getting things to work in Outlook would be greatly appreciated so I can learn and next time not have to bug you :)
<html>
<body>
<style>
tr {border:none;}
</style>
<table id="container" border="0" background-color="#D3E2E9" width="620px" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background:#D3E2E9;">
<tr><td>
<table id="container_border" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border:1px solid #85898B; width:570px; margin-left:20px; margin-top:20px; margin-bottom:20px;">
<tr><td>
<!-- content -->
<table id="content" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin-left:15px; margin-top:20px; margin-bottom:20px;padding:10px; width:517px; background:white;">
<tr><td>
<tr>
<td><img src="https://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs089/1103957675139/img/7.jpg"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px; line-height:150%; color:#000; margin-top:20px; padding:0 52px; font-weight:bold;">Announcing, da, da, da, DAAAAAAAAAAA, the brand new awesomely helpful,
wildly interesting Back Bay Shutter Company website. Full of juicy information
on all of our products, from shutters, shades and blinds to Shoji panels, this
site will help make the job of choosing just the right window treatment a snap.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><img src="https://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs089/1103957675139/img/8.jpg"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px; line-height:150%; color:#000; margin-top:20px; padding:0 52px; font-weight:bold;">We even have product videos, so you can actually see how a product looks and
works in people's homes (and who doesn't like a peak at someone else's home?).
We also have a blog, brimming with design news and views.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px; line-height:150%; color:#000; margin-top:90px; padding:0 22px; font-weight:bold;">
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<img src="https://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs089/1103957675139/img/6.jpg" border="0">
</td>
<td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px; line-height:150%; color:#000; font-weight:bold;">
So become a Facebook fan and stay updated on what we're doing. And stop by often. We can't wait to show you around.
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><img src="https://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs089/1103957675139/img/3.jpg"></td>
</td></tr>
</table>
</td></tr>
</table>
</td></tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Please try to use below inline style to empty tds avoid more spacing of because empty tds
style="font-size:0%; line-height:1px; mso-line-height-rule:exactly;"
simple and happy coding
The extra space is caused by this empty row:
<tr>
<td> </td>
</tr>
Try replacing that row with:
<tr>
<td height="0" style="padding: 0; margin: 0; height: 0;"></td>
</tr>
Alternatively, sometimes when dealing with Outlook it's easiest to use <br> for spacing.
Here's your full HTML with 2 <br> added at the end of the last paragraph:
<html>
<body>
<style>
tr {border:none;}
</style>
<table id="container" border="0" background-color="#D3E2E9" width="620px" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background:#D3E2E9;">
<tr><td>
<table id="container_border" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border:1px solid #85898B; width:570px; margin-left:20px; margin-top:20px; margin-bottom:20px;">
<tr><td>
<!-- content -->
<table id="content" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin-left:15px; margin-top:20px; margin-bottom:20px;padding:10px; width:517px; background:white;">
<tr><td>
<tr>
<td><img src="https://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs089/1103957675139/img/7.jpg" style="display:block"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px; line-height:150%; color:#000; margin-top:20px; padding:0 52px; font-weight:bold;">Announcing, da, da, da, DAAAAAAAAAAA, the brand new awesomely helpful,
wildly interesting Back Bay Shutter Company website. Full of juicy information
on all of our products, from shutters, shades and blinds to Shoji panels, this
site will help make the job of choosing just the right window treatment a snap.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><img src="https://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs089/1103957675139/img/8.jpg" style="display:block"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px; line-height:150%; color:#000; margin-top:20px; padding:0 52px; font-weight:bold;">We even have product videos, so you can actually see how a product looks and
works in people's homes (and who doesn't like a peak at someone else's home?).
We also have a blog, brimming with design news and views.<br><br>
</td>
<tr>
<td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px; line-height:150%; color:#000; margin-top:90px; padding:0 22px; font-weight:bold;">
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<img src="https://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs089/1103957675139/img/6.jpg" border="0" style="display:block">
</td>
<td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px; line-height:150%; color:#000; font-weight:bold;">
So become a Facebook fan and stay updated on what we're doing. And stop by often. We can't wait to show you around.
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><img src="https://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs089/1103957675139/img/3.jpg"></td>
</td></tr>
</table>
</td></tr>
</table>
</td></tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
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I have designed an app and applied inline style, such image and text appear side by side. I see there is an extra space between image and text. I also see "Demo Analysis Application" is shown as "Demo Analysis" and in next line "Application". I want image and next to it "Demo Analysis Application".
I have shown what I tried below.I have marked what I don't want in the picture.
<table class="mainTable" style="margin:auto;">
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="height:65px;width:200px;padding:0px; padding-top:30px; padding-bottom:20px; border:0px; margin:0px;">
<img src="images/test.jpg" alt="Logo" width="200px" height="100px">
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="height:65px;padding:0px; padding-top:30px; padding-bottom:20px; border:0px; margin:0px;">
<p style="height:65px;width:200px;font-weight:bold;font-size:26px;">Demo Analysis Application</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<table class="mainTable" style="margin:auto;">
<tr>
<td colspan="1" style="height:65px;width:auto;padding:0px; padding-top:30px; padding-bottom:20px; border:0px; margin:0px;">
<img src="https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2017/04/05/11/56/image-in-the-image-2204798_960_720.jpg" alt="ANSYS Logo" width="200px" height="100px">
</td>
<td colspan="1" style="height:65px;padding:0px; padding-top:30px; padding-bottom:20px; border:0px; margin:0px;">
<p style="height:65px;width:200px;font-weight:bold;font-size:26px;">Demo Analysis Application</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Please check this code.I think this is what you want.
I'm coding a "responsive" email.
I have a table with 2 td's. An I want that the second one is on the right of the table.
The problem is that the first one can't have fixed width so the table can be responsive.
I tried the "float: worksright" solution but it doesn't work on outlook. (I have tried others but it was the better solution.)
Do you have any idea?
<table style="max-width:600;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td width="131" style="padding:25px 0;"><img src="images/autodesk.jpg" style="display:block; height:auto; max-width:131px; width: 100%;"></td>
<td width="25" style="font-size:1px; padding:25px 0;"> </td>
<td style="padding:25px 0; vertical-align:top;"><table style="max-width:444;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:13px;">
<strong style="color:#ff9933; font-size:11px; text-transform:uppercase;">Autodesk</strong><br/>
<strong style="color:#020a0d; font-size:20px; line-height:27px;">Coleções de indústrias Autodesk</strong><br/>
<br/>
O Kaspersky Anti-Virus proporciona a primeira linha de defesa do seu PC contra vírus através de tecnologias antimalware premiadas, spyware e muito mais. Obtenha proteção real contra os programas maliciosos.<br/>
<br/>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="max-width:444;">
<tr>
<td>
<div style="background-color:#ff9933; color:#ffffff; font-size:14px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align:center; text-transform:lowercase; padding:5px;">Saber +</div>
</tr>
</table></td>
</tr>
</table></td>
</tr>
</table>
STOP EVERYTHING! I declare myself publicly a stupid person. It just use align="right" in parent table. --' Sometimes we forget the simplest things.
Thank everybody for your help. :)
set width="100%" to table inside second td
Check out this fiddle
I am able to hide a table by using below code in Gmail, but same isn't working on Inbox by Google. Please review below code and help me to hide this table on Inbox by Google.
<!--[if !mso]><!--><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="mobileShow" align="center" style="width:320px; background-color:#ffffff; max-height: 0px !important; display: none !important; overflow:hidden; float:left; line-height:0px; mso-hide: all;">
<tr>
<td style="width:85px;">
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width:85px; background-color:#f8f8f8;">
<tr>
<td style="width:85px; height:66px; background-color:#ffffff;"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width:85px; height:159px; background-color:#f8f8f8;"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td style="width:150px; background:url(http://in.bmscdn.com/events/Large/ET00041490.jpg) no-repeat center center; height:225px; background-color:#adadad; border-radius:5px; background-size: 100% 225px;"><img src="http://in.bmscdn.com/mailers/images/160720bmsreview/playbtn.png" style="margin:75px auto;display:block;" height="60" border="0" width="60"></td>
<td style="width:85px;">
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width:85px; background-color:#f8f8f8;">
<tr>
<td style="width:85px; height:66px; background-color:#ffffff;"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width:85px; height:159px; background-color:#f8f8f8;"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr></table><!--<![endif]-->
You really haven't submitted enough of an example for me to understand what's going on, but the fact that you're using !important suggests to me that you're not using inline styles. Try that out, emails are a pain to work with but inline usually works better.
This should cover all your bases (as inline CSS):
{
display:none;
font-size:1px;
line-height:1px;
max-height:0px;
max-width:0px;
opacity:0;
overflow:hidden;
mso-hide:all;
}
Edit (as inlined):
<table style='display:none;font-size:1px;line-height:1px;
max-height:0;max-width:0;opacity:0;overflow:hidden;
mso-hide:all;' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border=0>
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! ;) )
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...