I'm designing an HTML Newsletter and I've run into this problem:
As you can see, the cellspacing is completely out of whack: there shouldn't (and CAN'T) be a space between the rows on the left and right column. I don't really know what the culprit could be, any ideas would be appreciated!
Here's the relevant source code:
<table width="740" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="1">
<tr>
<td colspan="3">
<img src="top.jpg" width="740" height="53">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3" height="200" valign="top" id="headerCell">
<img src="header.jpg" width="740" height="200" alt="Headerbild">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
L
</td>
<td valign="top" width="600" bgcolor="#ffffff">
CONTENT
</td>
<td>
R
</td>
</tr>
The HTML looks fine to me. Have you tried eliminating the unnecessary whitespace? That could be a possible cause (also, remember the great IE6, which had whitespace issues).
The HTML rendering engines in e-mail clients are just horrible. I've had to design some newsletters a while back and it sucked big time. Here's a nice collection of tips, maybe it'll be of some help.
I finally found out what was causing this spacing: a padding-top set on the center cell caused the left and right cells top edge to stay flush with the content-top of the center cell.
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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/
In my email, there is a right-aligned image. And the problem is, its right side does not exactly stick to the right edge of parent table cell, in stead, there is a 1px gap. That only happens on Outlook 2007, 2010, and 2013, not on other versions of Outlook and other email agents.
Please copy the code at here and send it to Outlook 2007, 2010, or 2013 to see the problem.
I had tried many solutions such as border-collapes, mso-table-rspace, mso-line-height-rule, etc, and still had no luck.
When using images emails tend to perform more consistently when the width and height are also added to the which surrounds the image, please see my edited version of your table holding your image.
<table align="center" width="600" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" bgcolor="ffffff">
<tr>
<td width="600" align="right" bgcolor="ffffff" style="padding: 50px 0;">
<table align="right" width="250" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td width="250" height="200" align="right">
<img style="display: block;" src="http://placehold.it/250x200" width="250" height="200" border="0" alt="">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Problems can also arise when <td> or <table> have no fixed widths, but immediately outer <td> or <table> do, as the inner <table> or <td> may not inherit the widths properly.
I haven't had an opportunity to test this, but I will if I can.
So, typical question. I have searched a boatload here. Tried everything suggested. Nutin'
So Maybe to ask the question fresh.
I am having some verical gaps in Outlook 2013 (and 2007 too i think) between my image slices. (Also my text is extending further than it is set as)
Knowing that display:block doesn't really work for Outlook. I've tried wrapping in spans and giving the span a display:block
I'm at a loss. I'm hoping someone can answer this one easily. Grrrrr!!!! Outlook! Why must you be so popular?
http://pastebin.com/ESfEmWer
http://tinypic.com/r/2gtdhu1/6
Don't go for
display: [anything]
if you wish to include Outlook 2007. See http://www.xequte.com/support/maillistking/css_in_emails.html for reference of which CSS styles you can use and which you better don't.
Don't use any whitespaces trailing
<td>
and don't use any whitespaces preceding
</td>
And you should also avoid
<style>...</style>
as this will most likely will be striped away completely. Always go for inline-styles. And I know that this is not part of a real answer, but just as a hint: If you are doing HTML newsletters make them as if you were doing them for Internet Explorer 4. E-Mail clients like Outlook use the most ridiculous CSS-renderer you can imagine. Even Internet Explorer 5 is more sophisticated in rendering CSS then modern Outlooks.
Oh, and by the way: If there is a chance that the recipients of your newsletter might read them online in hotmail, gmx or gmail then you should check them, too. You will stand in awe and wonder how those online clients handle your code and what they inject.
You have a ton of whitespace causing the gap:
<a href="mms://a1783.v167326.c16732.g.vm.akamaistream.net/7/1783/16732/0/QPS.Onstreammedia.com/origin/jjready2/%5bInbox%5d/Talent%20Management/CDF%201-18_WMV.wmv">
<img style="display:block" src="http://emaniocreative.com/eblasts/3_26_2013/Message-from-Dominic-&-Louise.jpg" width="360" height="257" border="0" alt="Message from Dominic & Louise - Video"></a>
Try taking the whitespace out.. also display:block doesn't work like display:inline-block (the later you probably want instead) You cannot add formatting such as margin or padding to SPAN. I would keep what you have as IMG and DIV elements, however if you are using a TABLE you may want the border-collapse:collapse; property set.
Also to note, if you are using display:inline-block you will want to take out ALL whitespace between your elements:
<tr>...</tr><tr>...</tr>
Instead of what you have currently:
<tr>
...
</tr>
<tr>
...
</tr>
You have way too many colspans, which could cause problems. You should be nesting your tables instead.
I've created hundreds of emails and never had any issues with whitespace caused by line-returns in email code. (Outlook 2007 is the first thing I check my emails in)
It is always good practice to use display:block; and also keep images in their own <td> by themselves.
Try something like this instead:
<html>
<head>
<title>Ambassador Newsletter</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<style>img {display:block}</style>
</head>
<!--REPLACE the following text with the path to the images on your server http://emaniocreative.com/eblasts/3_26_2013/ -->
<body style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: #FFFFFF;" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><table bgcolor="#ebebeb" width="100%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><table width="600" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td valign="top" style="padding-top:30px; padding-bottom:30px;">
<table id="Table_01" width="650" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="border-collapse: collapse;">
<tr>
<td>
<!-- NEST A TABLE INSTEAD-->
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#770000">
<tr>
<td style="padding:20px;">
header
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- /NEST-->
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<!-- NEST A TABLE INSTEAD-->
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td style="padding:20px;">
Body section 1
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding:20px;">
Body section 2
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- /NEST-->
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td></tr></table></td></tr></table></body></html>
In my example I used padding instead of cells for spacing.
You never need a blank spacer image. Use a in an empty cell instead if you prefer not to use padding:
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#770000">
<tr>
<td height="20" colspan="3">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="20">
</td>
<td width="610">
header
</td>
<td width="20">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="20" colspan="3">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
On a side note, there is an unavoidable issue with vertical separation when forwarding from Outlook to Gmail for example, (courtesy of mso.normal p tags added) but for the initial recipient there are no problems.
I have a problem with dynamic height of the table cell. I've set it to rowspan=2 so it should take 2 rows for it's height.
My code:
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 640px;" align="center">
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><img src="bg-top.png" /></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 669px;">
<td><img src="bg-left.png" style="display: block"/></td>
<td valign="top" rowspan=2 >
lorem ipsu
</td>
<td><img align="right" src="bg-right.png" style="display: block"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td background="cont.png"></td>
<td background="cont.png"></td>
</tr>
</table>
I'm trying to make images look like a border around the text, and if text is longer than what can be put in 700px than it should repeat cont.png. It looks fine in Opera and Chrome but in IE and Firefox it's not working.
Screnshots:
in mozzila: http://shrani.si/f/1h/12j/3c72q2gv/notworking.png
in chrome: http://shrani.si/f/Q/n/3w7G0jOn/working.png
Any ideas what I might change?
I would convert this to use CSS instead.
I'v got it to work! U used only one row and set background picture to it and then set my left and right on top of it, and set it with valing=top. Now it works evrywhere except in outlook :S
I have a table defined as
<table border="1" width="200px" height="auto">
<tr>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>
Is there a way that I can align the table at the center of the page, apply background color to page without using css for any of these operations?
I assume you are doing something horrible like HTML email:
<center><table bgcolor="#ff00ff"></table></center>
<center>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="200" align="center">
<tr>
<td background="http://www.yourdomain.com/email/images/background.jpg" align="left">
<!-- Stuff -->
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</center>
http://www.email-standards.org/
http://mailchimp.com/resources/guides/email-marketing-field-guide/
http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/tutorials/ultimate-guide-html-emails/
The background attribute was never valid on table or td. Pretty sure the only thing the HTML 4 specification had background on was body. But I vaguely recall that it worked elsewhere and I think table cells was elsewhere--whether it works in Outlook you'll just have to test. bgcolor was valid all of those places...and is likely to work.