Is it safe to use position:absolute in a email template?
email template position absolute?
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Depends on which mail clients your users are using. Outlook for example handles position: absolute well, Thunderbird on the other hand doesn't.
I would try designing your mail-template as "normal" as possible. Tables help a lot for example (yuck).
See the following page about styling tips on HTML mails, including some position absolute advice:
The Style in Email link is broken! –
Freethinker
Replaced the link with an archive.org link –
Pernick
Adding to an old question, I know - but I can confirm that neither GMail supports position: absolute at the moment.
what should I use instead of
position:absolute? I tried to give negative margin but failed. –
Valerlan gmail is no longer supported –
Innings
it is not a safe manner to use position absolute in emailers,because all of the email server did'nt support the tag..instead using postion absolute you guys can use
<table width="100%" align="center" style="Margin:0px; Padding:0px; border-collapse:collapse; background-color:rgb(255,255,255);max-width:600px;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" background="http://wallpapercave.com/wp/BGGdOwY.jpg">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top">
<p Style="Margin-top:45px; text-align:left; line-height: 24px; letter-spacing: 0.55px; Margin-bottom:10px; font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif!important; width: 540px;">Dear Artist/Vendor,</p>
<p Style="text-align:justify; line-height: 24px; letter-spacing: 0.55px; Margin-top:10px; Margin-bottom:10px; font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif!important; width: 540px;">We've received a request to reset your password. If you didn't make the request, just ignore this email. Otherwise, you can reset your password using this link:</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>even you guys can use clickable button on it by adding this code in another td
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
<meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" >
<title></title>
</head>
<body style="Margin:0px; Padding:0px;">
<table width="100%" align="center" style="Margin:0px; Padding:0px; border-collapse:collapse; background-color:rgb(255,255,255);" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="top">
<table width="100%" align="center" style="Margin:0px; Padding:0px; border-collapse:collapse; background-color:rgb(255,255,255);max-width:600px;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" background="http://wallpapercave.com/wp/BGGdOwY.jpg">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="top">
<table width="100%" align="center" style="Margin:0px auto; Padding:0px; border-collapse:n-left: 20px; max-width:600px; " border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" >
<tbody>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top">
<p Style="Margin-top:45px; text-align:left; line-height: 24px; letter-spacing: 0.55px; Margin-bottom:10px; font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif!important; width: 540px;">Dear Artist/Vendor,</p>
<p Style="text-align:justify; line-height: 24px; letter-spacing: 0.55px; Margin-top:10px; Margin-bottom:10px; font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif!important; width: 540px;">We've received a request to reset your password. If you didn't make the request, just ignore this email. Otherwise, you can reset your password using this link:</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table width="100%" align="left" style="Margin:0px auto; Padding:0px; border-collapse:collapse; max-width:600px; Margin-left: 20px; Margin-top:15px;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" >
<tbody>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top">
<a href="https://www.google.co.in/" style="padding: 10px 35px; text-decoration: none; color: #ffffff; background-color:#000000; letter-spacing: 0.55px; text-align:left; line-height: 24px; font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif!important;">Reset Your Password</a>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table> The
background attribute is not supported by Outlook. To overcome this issue, you could use VML. Check this post for example. –
Bidwell According to Style in Email, neither AOL (before release 9) nor Mozilla Mail/ThunderBird (all versions) support absolute positioning in the email body.
The Style in Email link is broken! –
Freethinker
absolute in css not working for HTML email. If you gonna use absolute for Image combination, you can use such style.
background-image: url(url_to_your_image);
Hope it will help you.
Outlook doesn't have direct support for background-image. –
Dumbarton
It's not safe at all.
From https://www.caniemail.com/features/css-position/, it's supported on Apple Mail (desktop, iOS), but not any Gmails (web, apps) or Outlooks (desktop Windows, Outlook.com, apps) and not a lot of others.
For an alternative, look into 'faux absolute positioning HTML email', using max-height:0 on a parent.
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position:absolute, and at least some versions of Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and possibly Hotmail don't support it either. – Bradway