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pubudumj

Reputation: 391

How do I remove link underlining in my HTML email?

<td width="110" align="center" valign="top" style="color:#000000;">
    <a href="https://example.com" target="_blank"
       style="color:#000000; text-decoration:none;">BOOK NOW
    </a>
</td>

I used this code to make a link in my HTML email. In browsers and Outlook it's working nicely, but in GMail, Hotmail, and ymail it shows links underlined.

Can anyone help me to get rid of this?

Upvotes: 39

Views: 137709

Answers (27)

Muhammad Kashif
Muhammad Kashif

Reputation: 131

i tried all the solution above nothing worked. i was wrapping a card inside an anchor tag and no matter what i did the text inside the card always had underline. so what i did was wrap every text inside the card with an anchor tag and assign text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-color: #FFFFFF; styles to the anchor tag. as #FFFFFF was the background color of the card as well the underline disappeared.

<a
    style="
        text-decoration: underline;
        text-decoration-color: #FFFFFF;
    "
>
    BOOK NOW
</a>

if #FFFFFF is not your background color change it to whatever you need.

Upvotes: 0

Mokesh S
Mokesh S

Reputation: 803

Just use the following css to avoid anchor tag default css styling:

.ii a[href], a {
        color: inherit !important;
        text-decoration: none !important;
    }

Upvotes: 0

Joanna Avalos
Joanna Avalos

Reputation: 51

Using text-decoration: unset; inside the style of the element works for GMAIL

Upvotes: 0

Camilo Vallejo
Camilo Vallejo

Reputation: 1

In my case, I configured the signature (copy and paste in gmail) using Safari. I tried every code you putted here, but those didn´t worked. After you paste the signature using Safari, you can come back to Chrome and the underline is gone.

Upvotes: 0

RisingSun
RisingSun

Reputation: 1733

Windows Mail seemed to outright ignore inline text-decoration tag but what fixed it for me was by adding this to the head:

<!--[if (mso)|(mso 16)]>
<style type="text/css">
    body, table, td, a, span { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important; }
    a {text-decoration: none;}
</style>
<![endif]-->

Upvotes: 6

Danny Aditya
Danny Aditya

Reputation: 1

place your "a href" tag without any styling before div / span of text. then make your styling in the div/span tag.

for the most restricted styling email client.

<div><a href=""><span style="text-decoration:none">title</span><a/></div>

Upvotes: -2

&#214;mer Doğan
&#214;mer Doğan

Reputation: 691

All you have to do is: 

<a href="" style="text-decoration:#none; letter-spacing: -999px;">

Upvotes: -1

Teshan N.
Teshan N.

Reputation: 2535

Use !important in the text decoration rule.

<a href="#" style="text-decoration:none !important;">BOOK NOW</a>

Upvotes: 4

Nereus Eng Wei Xian
Nereus Eng Wei Xian

Reputation: 51

In Windows 10 Mail, you might need to add these in your html head:

<!--[if (mso)|(mso 16)]>
  <style type="text/css">
    body, table, td, a, span { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important; }
    a {text-decoration: none;}
  </style>
<![endif]-->

The 'a {text-decoration: none;}' fixed the underline problems :)

Upvotes: 1

retrovertigo
retrovertigo

Reputation: 568

All email clients adjust the HTML and the CSS code you provide by their own rules:

e.g.: gmail removes everything but the inner HTML of the body tag.

1. for most other clients you can have a style-tag in your header

<style type="text/css">
    a {text-decoration: none !important;}
</style>

note: don't use CSS comments as YAHOO!Mail might cause trouble.

2. to be on the save side add the same code inline into the A tag as you did and an extra span tag as well (the style rules in a tags get often removed)

<a href="" style="text-decoration: none !important;">
    <span style="text-decoration: none !important;">
        text
    </span>
</a>

Upvotes: 1

Steven Collins
Steven Collins

Reputation: 383

I added both declarations on the a href which worked in outlook and gmail apps. outlook ignores the !important and gmail needs it. Web versions of email work with both/either.

text-decoration: none !important; text-decoration: none;

Upvotes: 2

Tom Leppens
Tom Leppens

Reputation: 11

I used a combination of not showing links in google, adding links for mso (outlook) and the shy tag, to keep the looks and feels for my company. Some code may be redundant (for my company the looks where more important then the be clickable part. (it felt like a jigsaw, as every change brakes something else)

<td style="color:rgb(69, 54, 53)">
<!--[if gte mso 9]>
<a href="http://www.immothekerfinotheker.be" style="text-decoration:none;">
<span style="text-decoration:none;">
<![endif]-->
www&shy;.&shy;immothekerfinotheker&shy;.&shy;be
<!--[if gte mso 9]>
</a>
</span>
<![endif]-->
</td>

Hope this helps someone

Upvotes: 1

Dr. Aaron Dishno
Dr. Aaron Dishno

Reputation: 1919

Text decoration none was not working for me, then i found an email in outlook that did not have the line and checked the code:

<span style='font-size: 12px; font-family: "Arial","Verdana", "sans-serif"; color: black; text-decoration-line: none;'>
<a href="http://www.test.com" style='font-size: 9.0pt; color: #C69E29; text-decoration: none;'><span>www.test.com</span></a>
</span>

This one is working for me.

Upvotes: 1

Ewerton
Ewerton

Reputation: 4523

I copied my html page and pasted to word. Edited the signature in word deleting the spaces where the underline is placed and make my own "padding" presssing space bar. Copied again and pasted to Outlook 2013. Worked fine for me.

Upvotes: 0

Jeffrey Neo
Jeffrey Neo

Reputation: 3809

To completely "hide" underline for <a> in both mail application and web browser, can do the following tricky way.

<a href="..."><div style="background-color:red;">
    <span style="color:red; text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:white;">BUTTON</span></span>
</div></a>

  1. Color in 1st <span> is the one you don't need, MUST set as same as your background color. (red in here)

  2. Color in 2nd <span> is the one for your button text. (white in here)

Upvotes: 1

Bryan Labuschagne
Bryan Labuschagne

Reputation: 213

Another way to fool Gmail (for phone numbers): use a ~ instead of a -

404-835-9421 --> 404~835~9421

It'll save you (or less savvy users ;-) the trip down html lane.

I found another way to remove links in outlook that i tested so far. if you create a blank class for example in your css say .blank {} and then do the following to your links for example:

<a href="http://www.link.com/"><span class="blank" style="text-decoration:none !important;">Search</span></a>

this worked for me hopefully it will help someone who is still having trouble taking out the underline of links in outlook. If anyone has a workaround for gmail please could you help me tried everything in this thread nothing is working.

Thanks

Upvotes: 3

hexinpeter
hexinpeter

Reputation: 1570

Code like the lines below worked for me in Gmail Web client. A non-underlined black link showed up in the email. I didn't use the nested span tag.

<table>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
        <td>
            <a href="http://hexinpeter.com" style="text-decoration: none; color: #000000 !important;">Peter Blog</a>
        </td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

Note: Gmail will strip off any incorrect inline styles. E.g. code like the line below will have its inline styles all stripped off.

<a href="http://hexinpeter.com" style="font-family:; text-decoration: none; color: #000000 !important;">Peter Blog</a>

Upvotes: 0

vonnshy
vonnshy

Reputation: 1

While viewing the html email try inspecting the element on that link and see what is overwriting it. Use that class and define it that style again in your head style and define the text-decoration: none !important;

In my case these are the classes that are overwriting my inline style so declared this on the head of my html email and defined the style that I want implemented.

It worked for me, hope it will work on your one too.

.ii a[href]{
text-decoration: none !important;
}

#yiv8915438996 a:link, #yiv8915438996 span.yiv8915438996MsoHyperlink{
text-decoration: none !important;
}   

#yiv8915438996 a:visited, #yiv8915438996 span.yiv8915438996MsoHyperlinkFollowed{
text-decoration: none !important;
}

Upvotes: 0

Tom
Tom

Reputation: 459

You can do "redundant styling" and that should fix the issue. You use the same styling you have on the but add it to a that is within the .

Example:

<td width="110" align="center" valign="top" style="color:#000000;">
    <a href="https://example.com" target="_blank"
       style="color:#000000; text-decoration:none;"><span style="color:#000000; text-decoration:none;">BOOK NOW</span></a>
</td>

Upvotes: 0

Tommy Bickerdike
Tommy Bickerdike

Reputation: 61

After half a day looking into this (and 2 years since this question was opened) I believe I have found a comprehensive answer to this.

<a href="#"><font color="#000000"><span style='text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>Link</span></font></a>

(You need the text-underline property on the span inside the link and the font tag to edit the colour)

Upvotes: 6

Nathaniel Hoyt
Nathaniel Hoyt

Reputation: 427

<a href="#" style="text-decoration:none !important; text-decoration:none;">BOOK NOW</a>

Outlook will strip out the style with !important tag leaving the regular style, thus no underline. The !important tag will over rule the web based email clients' default style, thus leaving no underline.

Upvotes: 41

Exception
Exception

Reputation: 8379

Here in http://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/, a nice explanation to say this is restricted! And a pretty nice guide to know all limitations of CSS in email clients.

Upvotes: 0

user1647234
user1647234

Reputation:

Use text-decoration:none !important; instead of text-decoration:none; to make sure you "lose" the underline.

Upvotes: 0

Anshu Dwibhashi
Anshu Dwibhashi

Reputation: 4675

It wholly depends on the email client whether it wants to display the underline under the link or not. As of now, the styles in the body are only supported by:

  • Outlook 2007/10/13 +
  • Outlook 2000/03
  • Apple iPhone/iPad
  • Outlook.com
  • Apple Mail 4
  • Yahoo! Mail Beta

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

Upvotes: 0

Ricardo
Ricardo

Reputation: 45

I think that if you put a span style after the <a> tag with text-decoration:none it will work in the majority of the browsers / email clients.

As in:

<a href="" style="text-decoration:underline">
    <span style="color:#0b92ce; text-decoration:none">BANANA</span>
</a>

Upvotes: 2

Kennith Nichol
Kennith Nichol

Reputation: 338

I see this has been answered; however, I feel this link provides appropriate information for what formatting is supported in various email clients.

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

It's worth noting that GMail and Outlook are two of the pickiest to format HTML email for.

Upvotes: 7

defau1t
defau1t

Reputation: 10619

You should write something like this.

<a href="#" style="text-decoration:none;">BOOK NOW</a>

Upvotes: -3

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