[thelist] Hotmail problems

Hershel Robinson hershelsr at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 25 08:48:21 CDT 2001


I am generating and mailing HTML emails.  The client wants in the email an
image centered in the email.  He then wants text to appear on top of this
image.  The text is not necessarily centered.  The images are like greeting
card backgrounds and each one has a box for the text, so the text must
appear above that box.  I am using this HTML to generate the cards via Perl:

<HTML>
<BODY>
<CENTER>
<TABLE WIDTH=1>
<TR><TD ALIGN=CENTER>
<IMG src="http://65.108.142.83/$background">
<P STYLE="margin-top: -$textheight; margin-left: $marginleft; margin-right:
$marginright;">
$text
</P>
</TD></TR>
</TABLE>
</CENTER>
</BODY>
</HTML>

Everything works great.  The values for $background, $textheight,
$marginleft, $marginright and $text are transmitted to the CGI and the cards
come thru perfectly, whether I view them locally in Outlook Express or
online in Yahoo.

Hotmail, however, is problematic.  They don't recognize the fact that the
margin-top is a negative value and the text appears below the image.  (Last
time I tested with them, I wasn't using margin-left and margin-right so I'm
not sure if these were displayed properly or not.)  I wrote them about this
problem, but would you believe, they didn't respond!

The client just so happens to use Hotmail and so he feels this is a serious
problem.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Hershel


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