[thelist] interesting style and email question

[Dan McCullough]

hummm I will have to try that.
thanks for the info.


On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 10:53:01 -0600, Ross DeMeyere <ross at demeyere.com> wrote:
> I had the same problem... I can't explain it, but when I looked at the
> code source in the eMail, I noticed that the periods at the beginning
> of the lines in the style sheet were missing. So instead of style
> defining a class it defined an element (which didn't exist). What I did
> was add a non-existent element tag and a comma in front of the styles.
> For example,
> 
> <style type="text/css">
> z, .music
> {font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:
> bold;color:#CC0033;text-decoration:underline;}
> z, .gentxt
> {font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-weight:
> bold;color:#FFFFFF;text-decoration:none;}
> z, .whitelink
> {font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-
> weight:bold;color:#FFFFFF;text-decoration:underline;}
> z, .textblock {padding: 20px 0 20px 10px;}
> z, .footer {background-color:#C20B45;padding:5px;}
> </style>
> 
> It doesn't hurt, as far as I can tell, but then eMail clients begin to
> notice the classes of music gentxt, whitelink, et cetera.
> 
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> On 10 Feb 2005, at 07:33, Dan McCullough wrote:
> 
> > I have been sending out bound multipart emails for the better part of
> > 3-4 years.  I have never had a problem with style sheets displaying
> > properly in the email clients.  But this last one I sent, nothing I
> > did would appease the HTML display gods. Anyway.  If anyone would like
> > to help me end this mystery I would
> > greatly appreciate it.  BTW this would be an exercise in figuring out
> > what was wrong, the email has long been sent.
> >
> > You can view it here (http://www.mccullough-net.com/nyack.html), it is
> > in its problematic state, now to the browsers that I used it looked
> > fine in this state but once it sent to email clients and web based
> > email sites it didnt look so hot.  I looked and tested other emails
> > that were based on the same template and they show up fine, so I'm
> > thinking that it was something small that I missed.
> 
>