html email question
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- elahon0
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- CygnusZero40
I originally set it up with tables, and there was issues with fonts being different sizes in places, some table layout issues.
For some reason in my Outlook 2013 Ill get everything looking perfect, then send an email test so someone else in O2013 and all of the fonts are smaller, layout issues. I dont get it so I just switched it to an image and put a link on the whole thing.
- fonts different sizes? thought it was a big image. it is a skill doing tables correctly as any old web person knows.fadein11
- that wasn't meant to sound shitty - there are various things you have to get right and it took time to learn to do it correctly is what i was sayingfadein11
- was saying... seems weird I used to spend all my time doing it then compared to how things are done nowfadein11
- I was suggesting chopping the image up into smaller images (as few as possible) and have your clickable area in a cell by itself.fadein11
- Projectile0
can't recall off the top of my head, but there are some bits of code, some inline, that will make it more cross platform. Cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 etc are a must, or gmail will throw a hissy fit!
...oh and yes.. tables or the whole image. Sorry bro
- fadein110
Chop it up and put in tables - only way to do that in emails. bizarre I know.
Tables if done correctly will work across everything.
- CygnusZero40
I didnt design it. Building something handed off to me. Not ideal but shit happens.
- Al_dizzle0
It's an email, you have to do it in tables, and you should design it with this in mind.
- Makes sense if people in this industry wanted to do things the proper way.CygnusZero4
- hahahajaylarson
- Gordy220
Can you make a table with a bgimage and make it so a cell is directly over the part you want linked, and in that cell have a transparent gif with a the link wrapped around it?
- Interesting idea, but dont feel like dealing with it at this point. Will definitely remember this though.CygnusZero4
- CygnusZero40
Cant post it, internal thing for a huge company. Im just going to make the entire image a link, even though the copy for the actual link is small and takes only a small percentage of the image. Not much I can do, html emails are a pain in the ass.
- CygnusZero40
Well its possible some people may pull the email up on their phones.
Worst case I can just put the link on the entire image.
- might not be a bad idea anyway. suppose you don't want to post the layout for us to see?CyBrainX
- jaylarson0
yeah, sounds better. slicing is a waste of time anyway. rarely works. is mobile a priority with this?
- CygnusZero40
Trying to avoid that slicing shit. Its a nightmare between different versions of outlook, pc, mac...
- Tried this by the way, lots of layout issues on different platforms.CygnusZero4
- Thats why im switching to this one part being an image. Its an odd design.CygnusZero4
- jaylarson0
anyway to slice the image up into cells in a table? i know. but it's email. shit sux.
- CygnusZero4
I have an image in an email and need a specific part of it to be clickable. Apparently hotspot image maps dont work in emails. Tried using a DIV with positioning, the positioning doesnt work properly in emails apparently.
Any other alternatives?