Hi,

okay im working on some html emails i have it so it works well for outlook but it seems most of the CSS dont work in hotmail

how can i have it so it works and looks the same in all mediums?

Thanks,
dAn

That's going to be a problem. Hotmail, as you've found, has really BAD support for CSS in emails, as does Outlook and others. The support for CSS in html emails is all over the place. The best you can do is make sure that your email renders as nicely as possible as plain text. Don't rely on images to get your message across, and ALL of your CSS has to be in-line.

For a good reference on what clients support what CSS, go to www.campaignmonitor.com

yea i noticed if i use external style sheet it breaks, at the moment i have all my css bunged between <style> brackets in the head and its displaying perfectly in outlook.

it seems hotmail displays it in vitrually text only format.

will have to play with it

i read something that aparently yahoo does something like changing the body tags to like <xbody>

Dan

yea i noticed if i use external style sheet it breaks

Don't use external resources in emails.
Those days, almost any web mail block external objects, and display only element embed into the mail.

does it make a differance if its inline or in style brackets in top?

With newer mail clients it shouldn't, but some of the webmail rendering will strip out style blocks.

Exactly, so, as ugly as it is, you should put your styles in-line. I've been asked to design some HTML email newsletters, not something I've done before. The code is ugly, but it looks pretty good in most clients and degrades decently to plain text if styles are ignored.

yay fun i have two pages of style to make inline --.-- grr stupid things

Inline style sheet's arent hard i actually learned inline css before anything. :PPP do you need help with youre inline style sheet ??

lol i know exactly how to do inline thanks

just quite annouying having to down grade quality of code

and having to spend a while going throught it all coping n pasting

I like that site Very Helpful link and Thread alot of ppl ask about Email newsletter's i took the time to create my own newsletter with that site. I thought it was kool because ur able to create ur own Newsletter without doing any scripting and Coding Youre newsletter urself.. But the only downfall on the site is that u really dont have full access in Managing it.

yea it would be brilliant if the testing was free, but shame i guess have to make money somehow...

Hi,

I am not sure, wether you have worked it out or not. i got the same problem once, but i resolve that issue by giving real / fix path in the css ( background images, files etc. ).

May be that help you out.

Cheers.

LadynRed already posted it, but
http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/...in_emai_2.html

The email client you are using to send HTML email also makes some difference.
To me Evolution (default, ubuntu email client) is worst, and thunderbird is best.

Thanks all,

I would be sending it from Windows mail (outlook express) so yea i know what i have to do

Thanks,
Dan

For email htmls always use clear html with tables because there are too many mail clients that doesn't support css