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I having some issues with a client of mine. I've built (not designed) an email template for them to use with Create/Send. I've used the design testing service from Create/Send and all is looking as intended. However, when the client views the email in Outlook 2003 the text formatting is missing (see screen grabs).
There is very little CSS in the head of the document and certainly nothing that should have this affect as much of the styling is done inline.
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
City West e-Bulletin
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
* { font-family: Arial, san-serif; }
a {color:#000000;}
a img {border:none;}
h3 a { color: #BD2C16; }
.topbannercopy a {color:#ffffff;}
.unsub a {color: #555555; text-decoration:none;}
.unsub a:hover {text-decoration:underline;}
</style>
</head>
<body style="text-align: left;">
<table border="0" bgcolor="#ffffff" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="591" align="center" style="font-family: Arial, san-serif;">
<tr bgcolor="#e95c55">
<td colspan="4"><img src="img/top-trust.gif" alt="City West Housing Trust. e-Bulletin for Staff" width="591" height="195"></td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#e95c55">
<td style="color: #ffffff; font-size: 11px; padding-left: 10px; padding-bottom: 5px;" colspan="4"><$description default=''$></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#e95c55" colspan="4">
<img src="<$imagesrc link='true'$>" alt="read more" width="591">
</td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#e95c55" valign="top" style="padding: 10px;">
<td colspan="1" style="color: #BD2C16; padding-left: 10px;">
<h3 style="font-size: 15px;"><$title link='true'$></h3>
</td>
<td colspan="3" style="color: #ffffff; font-size: 12px; padding-left: 20px;"><span class="topbannercopy"><$description default=''$></span></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top" style="font-size: 10px;">
<td width="133" style="padding-top: 10px;">
<img src="<$imagesrc link='true'$>" alt="read more" width="133" height="118">
<h3 style="color: #BD2C16; margin-bottom: 5px;"><$title link='true'$></h3>
</td>
<td width="133" style="padding-top: 10px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 9px;">
<img src="<$imagesrc link='true'$>" alt="read more" width="133" height="118">
<h3 style="color: #BD2C16; margin-bottom: 5px;"><$title link='true'$></h3>
</td>
<td width="133" style="padding-top: 10px; padding-left: 9px; padding-right: 20px;">
<img src="<$imagesrc link='true'$>" alt="read more" width="133" height="118">
<h3 style="color: #BD2C16; margin-bottom: 5px;"><$title link='true'$></h3>
</td>
<td width="133" style="padding-top: 10px;">
<img src="<$imagesrc link='true'$>" alt="read more" width="133" height="118">
<h3 style="color: #BD2C16; margin-bottom: 5px;"><$title link='true'$></h3>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top" style="font-wieght: bold; padding-bottom: 10px; font-size: 12px;">
<td width="133">
<p><$description default=''$></p>
</td>
<td width="133" style="font-wieght: bold; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 9px;">
<p><$description default=''$></p>
</td>
<td width="133" style="font-wieght: bold; padding-left: 9px; padding-right: 20px;">
<p><$description default=''$></p>
</td>
<td width="133">
<p><$description default=''$></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="2" colspan="1" valign="top"><img src="img/slash-left.gif" width="133" height="50" alt=""></td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="3" valign="top"><img src="img/slash-right.gif" width="458" height="42" alt=""></td>
</tr>
<tr align="right">
<td colspan="3" style="font-size: 10px;"> </td>
</tr>
<tr align="right">
<td colspan="4" style="font-size: 10px;">City West, the City West Logo and all other City West product or service names are<br>trade marks of City West. All Rights Reserved. <unsubscribe>Unsubscribe</unsubscribe>.</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
773
Your stylesheet is being ignored (which is the expected behaviour in Outlook). Convert those to inline styles and you're done! Last time I checked, Gmail also ignores stylesheets, so you're better off just not using them.
129
Remove the styles for the fonts and use the <font> tag. E.g.
<td style="color: #ffffff; font-size: 11px; padding-left: 10px; padding-bottom: 5px;" colspan="4"><$description default=''$></td>
Turn into:
<td style="padding-left: 10px; padding-bottom: 5px;" colspan="4"><font color="#ffffff" size="11px"><$description default=''$></font></td>
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