Gmail stripping link color from emails?

Question

Everything renders fine apart from link colors.. These are my links.

<a href="http://www.facebook.com.." style="color:#000000;text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold">Facebook</a>

<a href="http://www.twitter.com/..." style="color:#000000;">Twitter</a>

However, in gmail. These links are converted to this.

<a href="http://www.facebook.com.." style="text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold">Facebook</a>

<a href="http://www.twitter.com/..." style="">Twitter</a>

OK, so maybe gmail does this for all emails? I look around. Lots of blue links. I then open up a youtube message.

<a target="_blank" style="color:#e12e31;font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;text-transform:uppercase;text-decoration:none" href="...">Play all »</a>

Curious.. very curious. YouTube isn't having this problem that I am having. Can anyone else modify link colors in gmail when sending html emails? How are you doing it?

Answer 1

I had a similar problem with links in Gmail, but only when color: #000000; it changed it to the default blue.

I changed the color to a very dark grey and it worked.

Answer 2

GMail will change your links from black (#000000) to the default blue, presumably as an anti-spamming feature.

To get around this, just change the color of the font to (#000001), e.g.

<a href="#" style="color: #000001;">Click HERE</a>

Answer 3

Combining the answers here worked like a charm for me, eg:

color: #000001 !important;

I hope we aren't helping spammers and such here...