> I need to create an HTML e-mail and received some > samples of the kind of thing that is needed. They were > quite well done, but I was somewhat surprised to see > CSS used for the font styles etc. > > Is that a good idea? That is, can the various e-mail > clients be relied upon to handle CSS correctly (or at > all), or is it safer to use basic HTML for e-mail? I refer you to a post from 12/1/2005: <tip type="HTML Mail in Browser-Based Email Clients" author="Hershel Robinson"> HTML mail does not render as expected in many browser-based email clients, including some fairly popular ones. Two resources with research on this subject: http://www.eroi.com/resources/testing-email-in-gmail-hotmail.htm http://www.lyris.com/resources/articles/200510say_it_with_style.html </tip> and one from 12/2/2005: It's a bit complicated. See these resources: <http://www.alistapart.com/articles/cssemail/> <http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=StyleInEmail> <http://www.wilsonweb.com/wmt6/email-client-summary.htm> <http://www.wilsonweb.com/wmt8/email_format_preferences.htm> <http://www.mailchimp.com/resources/gen_email_design.phtml> <http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/archives/2005/08/optimizing_css_1.html>