Really annoying situation, and maybe there is an easier solution.. but I basically have a simple table I have styled in the general format:
<style type="text/css">
table.master_table {
... global table styling
}
.master_table td {
... master table td styling
}
.master_table td.dv {
... td dv style
}
.. more styling
</style>
<table class="master_table">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="dv">
.. nothing special
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
Now the problem is the server doesn't support the "style" element so I need to manually apply the style to each level i.e.:
<table style="... global table styling">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="td styling;td dv style">
.. nothing special
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
Is there any programs that can do this? Or is there any easier way to do this? I basically have a Wordpress.com blog that looks beautiful, in Live Writer because of some custom styling but as soon as I post, it strips out the style block. As a test I went through an manually did some of the above and it works, its just insanely painful and error prone.
if you are on wordpress.com i do not think you can control the css or anyother file.
you have to host your own wordpress.org blog to customize your theme.
So I found an online solution called "emogrifier"
Works well, all you have to do is enter css, then enter html and it will output inline styles.
There is a plugin called Art Direction which lets you add custom css on a per post basis. If you use this style on several different pages you should add the styles to a global stylesheet.
Related
In my project I have a lot of tabular data tables. I was wondering is it ok to change default table properties to css grid ?
I want to make table more responsive with css grid
`
<html>
<body>
<table style="display:grid">
<thead style="display:grid">
<tr style="display:grid">
<td></td>
</tr>
</thead>
</table>
</body>
</html>
`
It looks like it should work. I myself have never done it, but the following is a good link to look over some of the basics if you haven't already: https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_grid.asp. It never can hurt to try.
Our CRM allows us to send automatic emails to our customers using their software. Things like purchase receipts and so forth. While they offer HTML editing of the emails, it's heavily restricted and we may not use any CSS.
As far as what their style guide does allow, it appears to be all HTML and some inline styling, for example:
<span style="color:#ffffff">white</span>
<div style="color:#ffffff">
<img src="dickbutt.gif" style="width:30px;height:20px">
...are all OK according to the guide. However, no other CSS or CSS references are allowed, including:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/stylesheet.css" type="text/css">
or
<style type="text/css">
#import "/stylesheet.css";
</style>
or
<style type="text/css">
body { color:green; }
</style>
To add insult to injury, and I should have included this above, everything above the <body> tag (and including the body tag itself) is stripped out upon saving the file in their in-software HTML editor. They have some kind of auto-code modification scripts that reference the "approved" code in their style guide, and strips what's left. So what am I left with? Not much at all. Basically from between opening <table> to the closing </table>. They even strip out </body> and </html>.
With the remaining code, I'm unable to use #media at all or allow any <td> stacking. So, are their any alternate ways of linking to a style sheet you know about? ...a method that will allow stacking without access to CSS? I'm basically looking for a way to make these emails responsive under the restrictions outlined above.
I uploaded the style guide to JSfiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/Lxfqus7f
Yes, yes 100 times yes. Everyone who has ever designed an email template has had the same complaints. Email design is Web design circa 1999. First off just forget CSS references just inline everything you can and do not bother with #media tags, forget they even exist.
Table Design
Think of a <table> as a spreadsheet, a <tr> as a table row, and a <td> as a table cell. Instead of "stacking" TDs try nesting tables. A new table can go inside a TD and in a sort of Matryoshka doll style fashion you can make any layout you want.
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<table>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3</td>
<td>4</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td>5</td>
</tr>
</table>
The above works fine.
Responsive emails
The words responsive and email do not normally go together. What email clients render is severely limited but there are ways to work around it. Like setting your Master Table's width to 100% and having two TDs on each side. Like this:
<table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr height="500px" valign="top">
<td width="*" bgcolor="#00FFFF"> </td>
<td width="550px" bgcolor="#FF0000"> <center><br><br> <H1>Body</h1> </center> </td>
<td width="*" bgcolor="#00FFFF"> </td>
</tr>
</table>
Here are both examples in a JSfiddle.
http://jsfiddle.net/e8r9ky4x/
Looks like your style guide includes the use of some inline styles:
<p>Our studio is <span style="color:purple">purple.</span></p>
Define sections of text that require different HTML <div>
<div style="color:#FC8301">
<h3>This title.</h3>
<p>This is sentence.</p>
</div>
Since you're automatically generating emails anyway, why not just let this one slide and declare your styles in variables and use them where appropriate?
Are they stripping out all style tags? Could you just put a style hidden at the begginning of a TD?
<td><style>/*rules are for quitters!*/</style>Stuff</td>
Using a style tag in the body may not be the best of things to use and may even induce vomiting in many web developers, but it IS a possibility to utilize in Email.
I would strongly recommend not to use it this way outside of cases like you have listed, and would recommend HEAVY testing across all clients as it can sometimes cause buggy results.
I would look to make your inline styling do most of the heavy lifting and just use the style tags in body for items that cannot be done any other way.
Below is some good resources on Responsive HTML email made to work on GMAIL APP (which strips the style tag almost completely) and should help give you a baseline on best way to create your emails.
Hybrid coding approach - http://labs.actionrocket.co/the-hybrid-coding-approach
Hybrid coding redux - http://labs.actionrocket.co/the-hybrid-coding-approach-2
Is Hybrid right option - http://labs.actionrocket.co/hybrid-is-the-answer-is-it-the-right-question
What do you think is the most logical and efficient way to style a table in HTML/CSS?
I've seen a lot of people using HTML properties in their code like
<table width="80%" cellspacing="2" border="0">
<tr>
<td align="right" nowrap="nowrap">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Wouldn't it be easier to give tables and tds classes/ids and format them in an external stylesheet?
Not only would it be better, it's the proper way to do this. The code you have now is not something you'd want on a production site.
You shouldnt use inline styles: quite good thread (What's so bad about in-line CSS?)
and if you dont like writing class for each, try :nth-child for styling (super useful): http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/sel_nth-child.asp
Yes, It would.
However, when HTML was first being built, CSS was not as handy as it is now. With the abilities of CSS today, I would recommend creating the initial layout with HTML tags, and leaving any styling attributes (i.e. align, text wrap, border, etc.) to a CSS stylesheet.
Good Question!
there are lot of ways by using those you can style your table.
inline Css
internal CSs
External Css(Mostly prefered)
SASS(use Mixin)
LESS
Compass
The best and easy way to style a table is using CSS. You can see the example code below;
Code:
<style>
.my_table{
border:2px solid blue;
width:50%;
padding:5px;
}
</style>
<table border="1" class="my_table">
<tr>
<td>Jill</td>
<td>Smith</td>
<td>50</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Eve</td>
<td>Jackson</td>
<td>94</td>
</tr>
I'm working with a content management system that doesn't allow me to alter the head of the pages I'm working with. The page I'm creating will be edited by others using a WYSIWYG editor and will include a table where users can upload new documents. I want to style this with CSS so that I can give one command to put a line between each row (and this won't need to be done every time by each user - since they likely won't know how), but every time I do this it doesn't show anything. My code attempt is below, is this possible?
<table width=600px cellSpacing=2 cellPadding=2 style="td {border-bottom: solid 1px black;" }">
Not that I'm aware of. But you can do this
<style type="text/css">
.specialtable td {
border-bottom: 1px solid black;
}
</style>
<table width=600px cellSpacing=2 cellPadding=2 class="specialtable">
...
</table>
This will ensure that only this specific table's <td/> elements will be styled according to your needs. Note: according to the w3c specs, <style/> is only allowed within the <head/> element of your document. But in many browsers, it still works if you put it anywhere in the <body/>. Since you're looking for a kind of hack, this may be a viable solution for you
You can use frame and rules, two lesser-known attributes of the table element.
<table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" frame="below" rules="rows">
<tr><td>one</td><td>two</td></tr>
<tr><td>three</td><td>four</td></tr>
<tr><td>five</td><td>six</td></tr>
</table>
See jsFiddle.
Or if you only want lines in between the rows and not below the bottom one, leave out frame="below".
This won't work in all browsers though.
I'm going though something quite weird. I was working on a chat system with the rows and stuff based on tables, but the formatting kept messing up. I wondered why until I looked at the part of the source which was not working, which looked like this:
<table border="0">
<tbody>
<tr class="chatline" style="background:white;border-style:none;border-top:1px solid grey;padding:0px;">
<td style="background:#A0D7FF;margin:0px;width:1%;"><span style="padding:2px;background:#A0D7FF;color:black;height:100%;border-right:1px solid grey;">kpsuperplane</span></td>
<td style="color:black;background:white;"><span style="color:black;padding:2px;">test</span></td>
</tr>
<tr class="chatline" style="background:white;border-style:none;border-top:1px solid grey;padding:0px;">
<td style="background:#A0D7FF;margin:0px;width:1%;"><span style="padding:2px;background:#A0D7FF;color:black;height:100%;border-right:1px solid grey;">kpsuperplane</span></td>
<td style="color:black;background:white;"><span style="color:black;padding:2px;">test</span></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
However, when I view it through dev tools in chrome, I get this:
<table border="0">
<tbody>
<span style="padding:2px;background:#A0D7FF;color:black;height:100%;border-right:1px solid grey;">kpsuperplane</span>
<span style="color:black;padding:2px;">test</span>
<span style="padding:2px;background:#A0D7FF;color:black;height:100%;border-right:1px solid grey;">kpsuperplane</span>
<span style="color:black;padding:2px;">test</span>
</tbody>
</table>
Any idea why this is happening? The td's and tr's are automatically removed from the document when they are rendered. And this is not chrome specific. Live code in dreamweaver gives the same puzzling result.
Pic below:
I tested this in jsfiddle and it doesn't seem to be a problem. I also tested it in my own environment (chrome) and it works fine. Try looking for an unclosed tag in code above the table.
Edit:
Paste the code into w3c validator http://validator.w3.org/check. I found 13 errors/warning in the html. Check out the errors and the specific line numbers.
I found that you have div tags within the table, but they are not wrapped by a tr. I'm sure you'll be able to find the rest within the validators output.
According to your jsfiddle: you have simple mistake in HTML structure, here is copy paste;
</tr>
</table>
</div>
<tr class="chatline" style="background:white;border-style:none;border-top:1px solid grey;padding:0px;">
you close table and then you do not open it. ctrl + f and type /table. I suggest you just going carefully through it and make valid html ;)
Sorry it is not an answer, but it won't let me comment.
I tried same code in chrome using Dev Tools it is showing me tr and td's, so I am not what is happening in your case. I enclosed above code into html and body tags.