rowspans and colspans in html email

Question

Can rowspans and colspans be safely used when designing table-based HTML emails?

I have been told that they don't display correctly in Outlook 2007 and that tables must be nested in order to provide different size cells for layout.

Can anybody help or provide any links? Thanks

Answer 1

Colspans are usually safe to use. Stay away from rowspans.

Your best option is to nest a new table within a cell instead of doing rowspans or colspans.