messages with embedded style

[Kal]

Hi, I have written a message with a embedded style in it using <style> html tags. When sent to a yahoo account the message comes out styled properly - but when sent to a hotmail account the styling doesnt get applied.

Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

Thanks

Kal

[leslee]

Hi Kal,

I'll check this out for you, off hand I have no idea but give me a little time and we'll get it sorted.

[leslee]

Hi Kal,

I've done some checking and it seems that Hotmail sometimes makes a mess of the html, as a system it seems to prefer text mail.
I can only suggest that you make the html as basic as possible - I don't think Hotmail can read anything more complicated than that.

If it's a really big problem for you you might have to change the html just for Hotmail.

[Kal]

Thanks Leslee for your time and effort on resolving this.

Just for anyone else - the way to get round using <style> tag is to put your CSS inline - the only one that doenst work this way - is the a:hover - type CSS as this isnt allowed inline.

So best bet is to put a <style> anyway and then any email clients that can read that will use it - and then put in what you can in the inline styles. that way hotmail will get something fancier too.

also works with gmail - only thing is - gmail doesnt seem to want to display the images? Any ideas on that one?

Thanks, Kal

PS: for gmail it is a client browser problem and not to do with qt-pro emails. here is a link to how to get images showing: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=0119e8de67cb665a&hl=en

[leslee]

Thank you for the update Kal, very helpful!