Remove anchor underline email signature

Question

I am developing custom email signatures for a client of mine, I am now at testing stage for GMail, Hotmail, Brinkster and so on.

I'm having a hard time trying to remove the underline the anchor is displaying, I do have " text-decoration: none;" on the anchor itself and nothing is working for either client however, Outlook renders fine.

Can anyone help? :-)

Answer 1

I think your issue may be that certain clients move anchor styles and text into a span and apply the style definitions to that instead.

<a href="/" style="color:black;">hello, world!</a>

becomes

<a href="/"><span style="color:black;">hello, world!</span></a>

Not 100% sure why they do this, but it's annoying. Sometimes changing to something like this works:

<a href="/" style="color:black;" href="/"><span style="color:black;">hello, world!</span></a>

But it's still a mixed bag and changing all the time. Unfortunately the only way to confirm that things always look right is to use an image.