I agree that campaign monitor is a great resource for email HTML and CSS questions.
There does seem to be a happy medium between using an external stylesheet (which won't work in most web-based email readers), and using inline styles on a line-by-line basis, which really doesn't get you beyond the nastiness of having to use FONT tags. In almost all email clients (with the sad exception of Gmail), if you define styles in the BODY, but not the HEAD, it will apply the styles appropriately, at least for text formatting (size, font, color, line-height, etc.)... I have wrote some of this up on a recent post here, which might be useful: http://mattmedia.net/2007/08/23/8-html-email-tips-i-wish-i-knew-sooner/ Good luck! - Matt Bob you wrote: > > I have a newsletter which is being sent out by dada mail, however it > is not recognizing the custom font sizes defined either in the CSS > file, with inline CSS or plain ole HTML. Clearly the stylesheet is > being read (actually it looks like dada parses it into the message) > as if I change background colors or something general it shows. > > .custom_caption { background: #aaa; background: #000; /* this works > */ font-size: .8em; font-size: 80%; font-size: 10px; } > > The font sizes fail either in a stylesheet or inline CSS. Over... > -- Bob Meetin > > > > I suggest you take a look at campaignmonitor.com to see what is and is > not supported for html emails and css styles. it is a very helpful and > informative site. > > In my experience doing html emails dealing with font size is sometimes a > bit of a pain. > > 1. You need to decide what is acceptable to lose in terms of css > styling. Google will strip font styles for example. > 2. I use only inline styles as I know that they will most likely not be > removed from the code. There seems to be some discussion as to whether > to use a <style></style> tag at the top of the page. (must be in the > body, not the header, as headers will be stripped from the code by most > clients.) > > this has had good results in most of my html emails (though I am not > familiar with dada and its coding). > > <p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial San-Serif; font-size: 1em;">type > goes here...</p> > > not sure if any of that helped, but I have found that pretty much inline > is the way to go. > > -steff > > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
