CSS: Puesdo links in Emails§
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- Dancer
Do Hover states, active, etc.. work on emails that come into Outlook?
Has anyone seen or done it?
Also is there a list of tags/styles that are recognised by browsers. I know DIVS are not good, any others?
Thanks
- instantok0
i know ive gotten emails that have hover states in them...not sure what they used to achieve it though
- foreign0
i did a css design for an email campaign a few months back and documented all the selectors, do's and dont's, etc. for all the diffirent mail clients and web-based clients.
will be happy to share it, but unfortunately it's on my machine at home. will link it up in a couple of hours.
- brtman0
would appreciate that as well!
- -va-0
send it to me too. Please
- foreign0
just checked for my notes. can't find it. it seems i might have deleted them...
some things i remember:
do the layout in basic tables; put the css block inside the body tags, not in the header; some clients strips the "body" tag, so put a div around the e-mail body (something like "message") and don't use the "body" selector; use that same div to specify any other selectors: so instead of "p" use "#message p"; same thing for classes, eg: "#message p.note".
that's about it. you can use any css selectors or xhtml tags. the notes i made was mostly about things i had to change to make the email display the same in all clients, but after formatting my e-mail as above it pretty much worked everywhere (hotmail, yahoo, thunderbird, outlook, outlook express, aol) except gmail... which won't allow any css.
- Dancer0
Nice1 foreign
thanks
- fusionpixel0
make sure that the program that you are using to send the mass emails sends CSS with them, I have a case where I have to strip down all CSS from newsletter and conver to tables or font tags due that the program we are using will strip CSS and everything looks bad.
- DesignStamp0
very good article here:
http://www.alistapart.com/articl…