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user818700
user818700

Reputation:

Trouble getting html email signature to display properly in Outlook

I have created myself a simple email signature in html, he's the code:

<html>

<!-- Company logo goes here -->
<div id="far_left" 
    style="width: 50px; 
           height: 50px;
           float: left;
           margin-right: 10px;">
    <img src="logo.png" />
</div>

<!-- Name and occupation goes here -->
<div id="top" 
    style="height: 25px;">
    <span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 22; color: #464646;"><strong>Dean Grobler</strong>, Programmer</span>
</div>

<!-- Website link and email adress goes here -->
<div id="bottom" 
    style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, 'Sans Serif';
           font-size: 14px;
           color: #464646;
           padding: 5px;
           height: 25px;">
    <a href="http://www.deangrobler.com" style="text-decoration: none; color: #84d5f6">www.deangrobler.com</a> | 
    <a href="mailto:[email protected]" style="text-decoration: none; color: #84d5f6">[email protected]</a> 
</div>

In thunderbird, and my browsers it displays correctly:

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But alas in Outlook 2010 it does not:

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If it's using the same rendering engine that IE uses, and I bet you it does, I'm not too surprised this is happening.

Any ideas?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 28258

Answers (1)

Dom Walker
Dom Walker

Reputation: 341

Email clients do not render html in the same way that browsers do. When creating html emails it is much better to use tables. I know this is going against all modern web design, but they are supported by a lot more email clients. Here is a link to the css properties and which clients they are supported by.

http://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/

Upvotes: 14

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