[thelist] Email Newsletters and Stylesheets

[Bob Meetin]

Meaning that email readers, various webmail flavors, may not reliably 
read an external stylesheet?

Just to make sure we are on the same page, by inline styles we are talking:

    <div style="font-size: 2em; color: #191970;">Big Happy Text</div>

within the document body as opposed placing all the styles into a hidden 
head and

    <style type="text/css">
       .big_happy_text { font-size: 2em; }
    </style>

I much prefer the latter as the program I am using does not work well 
(template or not) with inline styles.

Thunderbird, of course, seems to handle all options reasonably well.  Do 
you generally include a clause, URL, to view the newsletter with your 
browser if it is not displaying well?  Or should that never happen?



Dan McCullough wrote:
> Inline styles as well, and very basic as you have to aim for the 
> lowest common denominator (within reason).
>
> On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Hassan Schroeder 
> <hassan.schroeder at gmail.com <mailto:hassan.schroeder at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Bob Meetin <bobm at dottedi.biz
>     <mailto:bobm at dottedi.biz>> wrote:
>     > I'm working with a newsletter program.  In general what is the
>     preferred
>     > method of implementing styles, stylesheets, preferably other
>     than embeding
>     > style <div style="font-size: 2em; color: #191970;"> with an element?
>
>     Sorry, but I use inline styles in my clients' newsletters; variance
>     between email readers' capabilities is just too wide.
>
>     Effort-wise, it's not a big deal if you're using a template.
>
>     FWIW,
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