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My HTML email newsletter design doesn't render properly in Outlook 2007. There is a white horizontal gap towards the bottom which breaks borders and backgrounds. I've had this happen before and have no idea how to work around it. Any suggestions? I've posted the source here. It renders just fine except in Outlook 2007 (Word 2007).
By the way, you can preview the problem without Outlook, by opening the source with Word 2007.
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It uses Webkit as the rendering engine. This means it's usually on par with Apple Mail and iOS as far as email rendering is concerned. If it looks good in your browser, there's a decent chance it will look good in Outlook for Mac and you'll have less chance of your html email not displaying properly.
In Microsoft Outlook, double-click to open an email. You'll see an “Actions” menu under the “Message” tab. Click on that menu and select the “Other Actions,” then click on “View Source” to see the HTML code. Regardless of what your default text editor is, the HTML file will open as a .
I can't see the original source, but the workaround is to insert a 100% width table somewhere in the design just above where it's breaking. This can be a 1px high transparent line. This allows Outlook to insert a page break.
Outlook is using Word 2007's rendering engine, so if it reaches the end of a sheet of A4 in printing size, it has to insert a page break somewhere. If there's an image in the place where it would otherwise insert that page break, it will just force that image down to the next page - that's the space you are seeing.
Using the 100% table allows Outlook to insert the page break there instead.
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Here is a good explaination of what can cause that bug and how you may be able to fix it: http://www.emailonacid.com/blog/details/C13/horizontal_spacing_issues_in_outlook_2007_and_2010
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Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom uses Word to render HTML? So I let Microsoft write the HTML for me.
That HTML will now work fine.
Don't even bother to decipher the HTML Microsoft creates. I'll give you a headache.
Next, I had to copy the HTML back into Dreamweaver to fix a few things:
By the way, I found if I tried at put the image map hyperlinks back in, the problem resurfaced. So I just linked the whole image.
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I currently have exactly the same problem, as far as i'm aware this is something to do with Outlook 2007 using Word 2007 as a rendering engine. Because of this, Outlook 2007 puts (what are effectively) page breaks throughout your email (at certain intervals).
I may be completely wrong, but this is how I see it...
Any answers would be rather good!
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