This HTML won't work!!

UKuser · Oct 14, 2009

Hi folks,

This very simple HTML table will not work in Outlook - works fine in
IE, FF, Thunderbird etc, but for some reason in Outlook it won't.
Basically it won't valign bottom properly. Is this a bug or something
I've done wrong?

The solution is to set a new table below our existing one, however I'd
like to know why it isn't working in the first place.

Thanks in advance.

A

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="699">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><img style="display: block;" src="our_image_here" alt="Our
image" height="113" width="699"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="699">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#cccccc" valign="bottom" width="29">dd</td>
<td bgcolor="#ffffff" width="641">
  
  
  
  
   
   
  
  
   
   
  
   
   
  
  
  
   
   
   
   
 </td>
<td bgcolor="#cccccc" valign="bottom" width="29">dd</td> 
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</body>
</html>

Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook] · Oct 14, 2009

This very simple HTML table will not work in Outlook - works fine in
IE, FF, Thunderbird etc, but for some reason in Outlook it won't.
Basically it won't valign bottom properly. Is this a bug or something
I've done wrong?

The solution is to set a new table below our existing one, however I'd
like to know why it isn't working in the first place.

Outlook version?

UKuser · Oct 14, 2009

Outlook version?

2007

Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook] · Oct 14, 2009

2007

Outlook 2007 uses Word as its rendering engine. Prior versions of Outlook
used Internet Explorer. Perhaps that's the explanation. Read this to see if
it explains the cause: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933793

frier · Oct 15, 2009

Outlook 2007 uses Word as its rendering engine. Prior versions of Outlook
used Internet Explorer. Perhaps that's the explanation. Read this to see if
it explains the cause:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933793

You can use this service to get screen shots from all major email
clients, and support to fix issues;
http://www.emailsignaturetest.com

UKuser · Oct 15, 2009

You can use this service to get screen shots from all major email
clients, and support to fix issues;http://www.emailsignaturetest.com

Hi Guys,

Thanks for your help on this. I know Outlook uses Word - but surely if
you test this code, the way Outlook works is broken! This is a basic
valign issue, and unless i'm missing something, this is simply not
right.

To have a rant against the software here - they are forcing us to use
Word to create emails which makes them considerably larger which I'm
not prepared to do. Rant over.

Thanks

A

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This HTML won't work!!

UKuser

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UKuser

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