HTML for Emails: Tables, Inline CSS, and Clients
Write HTML emails with tables, inline CSS, and conditional comments for Outlook. Test across Gmail, Apple Mail, and Outlook without breaking layout.
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HTML for Emails: Tables, Inline CSS, and Compatibility Across Clients Email HTML is a discipline of its own, and not a particularly pleasant one. The constraints that apply to email HTML haven't changed much since 2005: no external stylesheets, limited CSS support, table-based layouts for anything that needs to be two columns, and a rendering environment that differs between Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail, and dozens of other clients in ways that are impossible to predict without testing. This guide covers the actual rules for writing HTML that works across email clients — not just the theory, but the specific patterns you need to use. Why Email HTML Is Different Web browsers have largely converged on standards compliance. Email clients haven't. The situation is: Gmail strips styles, ignores…
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