[thelist] HTML Email question

Rebecca Dornin rdornin at hotmail.com
Fri Mar 3 12:14:01 CST 2006


I would look at the source of some html emails from well known companies to 
see what they do.

I would bet that they use the style tags and have all styling in the html, 
meaning no linking to style sheets.

In my html email newsletter, I use something like this in the head, and 
regular classes and ids in the body. It comes out fine in outlook and most 
other email browsers i've seen.

<style>
.someclass { color: #f00; }
</style>

Good Luck and let us know what you discover.

RD

From: "James Conley" <Conleyj at kubota-kma.com>
Reply-To: "thelist at lists.evolt.org" <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Subject: Re: [thelist] HTML Email question
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 13:06:59 -0500

I had to do an HTML/emailer thing not too long ago and it looks like
[Outlook at least] can handle a <style></style> tag set. I used CSS and
put it inside the email inside of a style tag.


james


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of ben morrison
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 11:22 AM
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: Re: [thelist] HTML Email question

On 3/3/06, Donald Pasewark <don at pasewark.com> wrote:
 >
 > I've recently been tasked at work to create a weekly HTML Email to our

 > sales force. I've got the templates done and initial testing (through
 > Outlook) shows that the CSS styles are not been transferred.
 >
 > When all is said and done, I'm not really clear on how HTML Email and
 > HTML are different. I was wondering if anyone can point me in the
 > right direction on a good tutorial or reference on how to create HTML
 > Email and what formatting limitations there may be.

When i've made HTML emails I have generally stuck to HTML 3.0 and
avoided the use of CSS. Dare i say it - even using simple tables for
layout.

Apparently support for CSS is improving in email clients, but its a lot
of work to take on for what is generally a little return financially.

This link will help you if you wish to carry on with the CSS route:

http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/archives/2005/08/optimizing_css_1.ht
ml

hth ben.
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