This is my first email newsletter. Create it in HTML/ CSS and I tried to send it with GMail and Yahoo. In both cases I get some gray lines, like border around tables when I insert the HTML code in the email page
Someone please tell me, why I get that border and how I can remove it?
HTML table borders cannot always be turned off. soe browsers/email programs display them automatically.
Can you provide a link to the newsletter code?
This is the link ronpat
http://www.aproapetot.ro/jukafashion/
You’re sending the page mark-up as the email’s body?
Yes Mittineague, but I found now that in gmail I don’t get those lines if I use Canned Responses. Even with gmail the css doesn’t work 100%. For example I put for a text-decoration: none and I still get the a underlined.
I don’t know how Gmail parses body content, but last I knew, some email clients do not use a <head></head> so any CSS there could be being ignored.
A pain I know, but the mark-up should be with all the styles specified in the tags, repeated endlessly per tag, as horrendous as that is to maintain.
Thank you Mittineague for trying to help me. Looks like I have to learn more about this chapter. I will look on lynda’s tutorials like:
As Mittineague said above you must inline all your css before you send it (apart from media queries for mobile email clients) and there are tools around that will do that for you. You can create the styles in the head and then run them through the inline tool to apply on a tag by tag basis.
Campaign monitor has some of the best resources and guidelines and free templates that you can copy and use.
In the end though there’s no guarantee of what will work as all email clients differ.
Thank you PaulOB for information. I have to learn how to do this because I was to a job interview and that big company put me in the end to write an html newsletter. Even I was ok at jquery and php, at this email campaign I failed.
So now I get the opportunity to do it for a fashion company like freelancer.
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