Thanks for sharing the links Tom, I see some good stuff there. I have found (we run seasonal campaigns so it's been a few months) that we still need to use the <font> tag, especially for Outlook. I look forward to trying it without though.
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 8:27 AM, Tom Livingston <tom...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:09 PM, <vi...@graymatterstudios.ca> wrote: > > Hi. I have been lurking in this forum for a few years and have learned > quite a bit from reading the posts. Now I have a question to ask. > > > > I am coding an html eBlast and have most of the CSS as inline but I also > have quite a bit of css in the head. It seems MailChimp strips out the css > in the head. Does anyone know how to get around this? > > > > Thank you in advance. > > > > Vince Mendella > > graymatter studios > > > > Here is the other page I mentioned: > > > http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/post/3442/mobile-email-design-in-practice/ > > We use this method for *some* of our emails. Our own and for clients > interested in responsive benefits (which, frankly, they all should > be). You may not be looking for responsive emails - though it's a > pretty good idea - however they talk alot about what clients will do > with CSS in the head and inline. > > That said, I agree that inline styles are the safest way to go. We > generally do all text styling with inline styles and have since > dropped old school <font> tags and the like. Watch out for spacing > methods. Margin and padding have flaky support. > > Here are some other good resources: > > http://www.email-standards.org/ > http://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/ > > Hope this helps! > > > -- > > Tom Livingston | Senior Front-End Developer | Media Logic | > ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] > 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/ > -- Chris Rockwell ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] 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/
