I’m making a template for email in html, it works fine in apple email clients, gmail, hotmail and windows mail 2006. It does not work in outlook, it stretches out, the font family is not working and because it stretches out it does not center on the page.
This is my code;
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=0.5">
<meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=yes">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
width: 100% !important;
overflow-y: hidden;
background-color: #ffffff;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;
-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;
font-family: Helvetica;
vertical-align: top;
border-spacing: 0px;
}
ul, ol, dl {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p {
margin-top: 0;
padding-right: 0px;
padding-left: 0px;
}
a img {
border: none;
}
a:link {
color: #42413C;
text-decoration: underline;
}
a:visited {
color: #6E6C64;
text-decoration: underline;
}
a:hover, a:active, a:focus {
text-decoration: none;
}
.container {
width: 600px;
background: #FFF;
margin: 0 auto;
}
.content {
padding: 0px;
padding-left: 10px;
border: none;
background-color: #E9E9E9;
line-height: 16px;
font-size: 14px;
width: 590px;
}
.footer {
padding: 0px 0;
background: #000000;
text-align: center;
color: white;
font-size: 12px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
height: 45px;
width: 600px;
}
.actie {
background-color: #69696D;
}
.icons {
font-size: 12px;
}
.contact {
text-align: center;
}
.table {
border-spacing: 0px;
}
.contact a {
color: white;
}
.devices {
background-color: #2f2f31;
height: 253px;
border: 0;
}
.header {
background-color: #2f2f31;
height: 87px;
border: 0;
}
p {
font-color: black;
}
</style></head>
<body>
<div class="container" width="600px" height="900px">
<div class="header"><img src="http://mediabunker.com/newsletters/newsletter_201206/logo.png" width="600" height="87px" />
</div>
<div class="devices" background-color="#2f2f31" height="220px" border="0"><img src="http://mediabunker.com/newsletters/newsletter_201206/devices2.png" /></div>
<div class="content">
<table width="590" border="0">
<tr>
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<p>Alvast bedankt en hopelijk tot ziens.</p></td>
<td width="45%" valign="top">
<table height="auto" border="0" cellpadding="5px" class="icons" margin-top="0">
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><h3>No matter what device.<br />
We build natively.</h3></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><img src="http://mediabunker.com/newsletters/newsletter_201206/apple.png"/></td>
<td width="199"><div align="center">Apple iOS is the operating<br />
system that powers the <br />
iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><img src="http://mediabunker.com/newsletters/newsletter_201206/android.png" /></td>
<td><div align="center">With partners like Google,<br />
HTC and Motorola, Android is<br />
the fastest growing mobile OS.</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><img src="http://mediabunker.com/newsletters/newsletter_201206/windows.png" /></td>
<td><div align="center">Together Microsoft and Nokia<br />
support conventional users <br />
with Windows Phone.</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><img src="http://mediabunker.com/newsletters/newsletter_201206/html5.png" /></td>
<td><div align="center">Looking for other platforms<br />
like BlackBerry, Samsung <br />
Bada or HTML5 & CSS3?<br />
We can build it!</div></td>
</tr>
</table></td>
</tr>
</table></div>
<div class="actie">
<div align="center"><a href="http://www.mediabunker.com/products"><img src="http://mediabunker.com/newsletters/newsletter_201206/actie2.png" /></a></div>
</div>
<div class="footer" background-color="#000000" halign="center" height="40px">
<table class="contact" border="0" HALIGN="center">
<tr align="center">
<td align="center" width="189px"><font color="white">Suikersilo-West 23 <br />
1165 MP Halfweg</font></td>
<td align="center" width="189px"><a href="tel:0031238200140">Tel +31 23 820 0140</a><br> <a href="mailto:info@mediabunker.com">info@mediabunker.com</a></td>
<td align="center" width="189px"><a href="http://mediabunker.com">www.mediabunker.com</a><br> <a href="http://twitter.com/mediabunker">twitter.com/mediabunker</a></td>
</tr>
</table>
<img src="http://mediabunker.com/newsletters/newsletter_201206/footer.png" width="600"/></div></div>
</body>
</html>
Can someone help me with fixing this for outlook? Have I used any elements that are not supported by outlook? Do I need more inline css?
I’d suggest having a look at http://www.emailology.org. I’ve found it very useful when building emails for Outlook. As a rule for HTML emails, I build them purely in tables and with styles on the elements. It’s horrible and like building bad websites years ago but unfortunatly it seems to be the best solution available.
For example, I’d change
<p>to<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">and so on. Build it and style it like you would do normally but when you are happy enough to test it copy all the styles inline.Have a look at Emailology though. It’s a great resource.