| tag. Outlook 2003, Outlook 2007, AOL, Yahoo, | | | | . border-collapse |
| Entourage and Thunderbird will accept either | | | | . border-spacing |
| placement, but Gmail doesn't accept any of them. | | | | . bottom |
| The best option is to use in-line style tags. In-line | | | | . caption-side |
| style simply means that the style for each element | | | | . clear |
| must be defined individually. Instead of defining your | | | | . clip |
| style sheet within your like this:href=" />or even | | | | . cursor |
| something like this:you would define each element | | | | . direction |
| individually, like this: | | | | . display |
| This is your paragraph text. | | | | . empty-cells |
| When you're defining those elements, keep in mind | | | | . float |
| that not all CSS properties are supported across the | | | | . font-family |
| board on all email clients. If you want to present a | | | | . height |
| consistent message to all of your readers no matter | | | | . left |
| how they are reading your mail, limit yourself to | | | | . list-style-image |
| these CSS properties: | | | | . list-style-position |
| . background-color | | | | . list-style-type |
| . border | | | | . margin |
| . color | | | | . opacity |
| . font-size | | | | . overflow |
| . font-style | | | | . position |
| . font-variant | | | | . right |
| . font-weight | | | | . top |
| . letter-spacing | | | | . vertical-align |
| . line-height | | | | . visibility |
| . padding | | | | . white-space |
| . table-layout | | | | . width |
| . text-align | | | | . word-spacing |
| . text-decoration | | | | . z-index |
| . text-indent | | | | And now for even more bad news: Lotus Notes and |
| . text-transform | | | | Eudora have terrible CSS support and even many of |
| Those properties are supported on both Macs and | | | | the widely-accepted CSS properties may not render |
| PCs in: | | | | properly. And since more and more readers are now |
| . AOL | | | | accessing email on PDAs and other handheld devices, |
| . Entourage | | | | you can never be 100% certain how or where your |
| . Gmail | | | | message will be read. So I suggest you always use |
| . Live Mail | | | | Multipart-Mime messaging, and always include a link to |
| . Outlook 2003 | | | | your text version within the html version of your |
| . Outlook 2007 | | | | message. |
| . Thunderbird | | | | *** Want to keep these tips handy? |
| . Yahoo | | | | I've created a downloadable "cheat sheet" that you |
| Properties to avoid include: | | | | can keep handy and access every time you compile |
| . background-image | | | | an email message. Grab your free copy at the |
| . background-position | | | | Modern Image website. |
| . background-repeat | | | | |