Embedding Css

[hjohnston]

HI

I am currently ceating a simple E-Newsletter using tables and text formatted using CSS. When I copy the code and email it to myself the CSS formatting is lost. Is there a way to include the CSS formatting. However when I dont use css all my formatting shows up.

Any help would be appreciated

 

[Foamcow]

How are you implementing the CSS at the moment?
Is it a linked or imported stylesheet?
Is it embedded in the head of the document between <style> tags?
Is it "inline" (i.e. applied to individual tags)?

Embedded in the head is the safest method with mail clients, but beware that not all client like CSS. You should keep your CSS fairly basic to be safe.

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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Some email clients only support a subset of HTML and CSS.

If this is for an intranet, and you know what your target mail client will always be, then you should experiment with what that mail client understands (and check out resources for it).

If this is for general internet use, your best bet would be to do as Foamcow mentions, and make sure all your styles are inline.

You should also try and make sure all your images are loaded from a webaserver, instead of trying to embed them (this would be most compatible will most mail packages, I'd say).

Those aside, these pointers might also help:

- Do not include JavaScript
- Do not include rollovers, CSS hover effects, etc
- Do not include Flash

Hope this helps,
Dan


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[traingamer]

I'll jump on the bandwagon for embedded stylesheets as well. The other thing I ran into when I did email newletters (which also were posted online) was to be certain to fully qualify all path names. (i.e.

http://www.tek-tips.com/images/logo.gif

rather than /images/logo.gif)

Greg
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[hjohnston]

Thanks for all your help, I ended up not using the css at this stage but it will be handy to know. This is the first time I have made an e-newsletter. I sourced the images of a server to keep file size down.

Cheers