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jon31 · Jun 17, 2003, 05:22 PM

Hello all,

I have written a small PHP script that will send an html e-mail to everyone in a MySQL database. The problem I have is that the CSS is not recognized in the e-mail client. Is this something that is not supported, or am I missing a certain step?

Please advise.

Jon31

philzilla · Jun 17, 2003, 06:08 PM

more info.

jon31 · Jun 17, 2003, 06:14 PM

Umm.. I'm sending HTML e-mails, but when viewing the e-mail, the CSS formatting of the HTML does not show up in the e-mail. I had a direct link to the css style sheet. I want to use line-height and font-weight, etc.

Ideas?

mixin visuals · Jun 17, 2003, 07:45 PM

why don't you have the css in the actual page instead of linking to it externally?

jon31 · Jun 17, 2003, 07:50 PM

I've tried both ways, neither seem to work for me.

Could you post an example of an inline CSS? Say for added a border to a table.

thanks!

ameat · Jun 17, 2003, 08:23 PM

dude, css won't work inline in most email apps...i believe it works in outlook, outlook express, most web based mailers, apple mail and probably some others (entourage,eudora?) but not aol and some older apps.

you're better off just using good old fashioned font tags and table layouts...

calimehtar · Jun 21, 2003, 07:13 PM

as ameat says, outlook and outlook express in Windows embed internet explorer, and should do css exactly as expected.

Other email clients will behave unexpectedly, some won't accept css at all. That's the way it goes.

Also some web-based mail systems, yahoo for example, will parse html emails and remove things they find suspicious especially javascript. I can't remember how they treat css but I don't imagine it's pretty.