HTML email help!!
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- mg33
Need your quick help guys with a problem.
We're testing an HTML email that we:
1) View the live HTML page on the web.
2) Choose to Send>Email in the web
3) Send from Outlook.There are only a few graphics, such as a header. The CSS works fine and is just for text formatting and turning on/off aspects for printing.
But... In Yahoo and anything except Outlook, the page images are included as attachments, with broken image graphics where the images should go.
In Outlook it comes across fine.
I get emails all the time that are HTML and work fine, display everything.
Any ideas? Very appreciated.
- visualplane_0
The image should be hosted on your server, then the html code should grab the image from there.
- kyl30
what vp said
- mg330
It is - it's live on the web, everything. We view the page live on the web and then do the Send through Outlook that way.
- visualplane_0
On the html page, what's the code for the image? It should be something like:
- visualplane_0
whoa, the rest of my post got cut off.
The img src should = to a web address rather than something relative like /images/image.jpg
Also, gmail automatically blocks images unless the viewer changes their settings.
- mg330
sweet, thanks, I think that's it.
- joyride0
Yes, include the absolute path to the images, not relative path
example:
Not:
images/1.jpg
- acescence0
even with absolute paths, yahoo will attach the images to the email.
- JayM0
Just FYI it is never good to use CSS in HTML emails. Should always use as basic HTML as possible. Some email clients really butcher CSS.
- airey0
just as a recap on the CSS thing - the safest bet is to only use CSS for styles and not positioning. CSS styles will work fine but positioning get's routed. also the styles need to be inline rather than an external file.