On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 9:19 PM, MEM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to know if it's possible, today, to style a newsletter using CSS. > I'm concerning about the compatibility issues, but, have any of you tried > this, what are your thoughts about this?
A reasonably large part of my job is cutting HTML e-mails and my advice is to use tables and inline styles. Be very careful about what CSS properties you use (see: http://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/). Although that list is a very useful resource you should also test everything you do, especially when you're not used to the display quirks of various e-mail clients, because Outlook has some strange behaviour. Indeed I had a discussion via e-mail with one of the guys from Campaign Monitor earlier this week when I finally was able to test some of my e-mails on Outlook 07, and I was shocked to see that despite Campaign Monitors' testing padding was not working on my e-mails in Outlook 07. I did some more testing and it appears the padding property DOES work, but only on table cells. So my advice is to code like it's 1997, and test in everything you can. Sometime next week I'll write a post on my blog detailing some of the practical techniques I use, which you may find useful. Be warned though, my approach is 100% targeted towards pixel perfection and doesn't take into account accessibility issues raised by HTML e-mail. Unfortunately I don't feel accessible HTML e-mail is realistic with the current platforms (mainly Outlook 07). So at least send a plain text version as well. Regards, Blake -- Blake Haswell http://www.blakehaswell.com/ | http://blakehaswell.wordpress.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
