Outlook Ignoring HTML Email Width 1

BoulderBum · Aug 28, 2007

So I'm trying to use a table layout (ordinarily bad, but said to be a necissity when emailing HTML-formatted emails), and everything looks fine in Hotmail online, but Outlook is ignoring my fixed width and allowing text to stretch to 100% of the width of the email:

Code:

<html>
    <body style="text-align: center;">
        <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600px" style="margin: 0 auto;">
            <tr valign="top" align="left">
                <td>[b]This test stretches 100%.[/b]</td>
            </tr>
         </table>
     </body>
</html>

Does anyone know how to properly constrain the width so Outlook doesn't mess things up?

MCP, MCTS - .NET Framework 2.0 Web Applications

Einstein47 · Aug 28, 2007

In the TABLE tag the width attribute does not use the "px" unit definition because all values are assumed pixel values. Remove that and see if Outlook likes it better.

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BoulderBum · Aug 28, 2007

Good eye! That was it!

I usually rely on styles, so this issue caught me off guard.

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