Sending a CSS formatted HTML mail

madhukp · June 17th, 2004, 06:01 AM

I have an issue in which I need to send an HTML mail to a number of subscribers.

The HTML uses a CSS file for its formatting. I have stored the CSS in a folder at server and used full path (http://www.mysite.com/mail/styles/mail.css) in the mail content. The format is coming correctly in the mail clients like Outlook and eudora.

However those using the hotmail and yahoo is getting the mails without the styles. I have copied the css text and put it in <style>...</style> tags and tried. But it is not working even then.

Could anybody tell the correct method of sending a CSS styled HTML mail so that it is accepted in all the mail sites ?

Thanks

madhukp · June 17th, 2004, 06:03 AM

Sorry. I did not mention the mail component I am using. It is CDO.Message.

I tried with CDONTS also.

harpua · June 17th, 2004, 08:46 AM

I use the following in the head tags and it works everywhere for me
<HEAD>
    <STYLE type="text/css">
        FONT.Orange15Bold {
                FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Geneva, Helvetica;
                FONT-SIZE: 15px;
                FONT-STYLE: normal;
                FONT-WEIGHT: bold;
                COLOR: #C47E0F;
                }
    </STYLE>
</HEAD>

harpua · June 17th, 2004, 08:54 AM

I also just came across this, It describes a few different ways of sending HTML email with CDO.
http://www.w3schools.com/asp/asp_send_email.asp

madhukp · June 17th, 2004, 11:30 PM

Dear harpua,

Thanks for the reply.

My classes are like this.

.boldtext
{
  FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Geneva, Helvetica;
  FONT-SIZE: 12px;
  FONT-WEIGHT: bold;
}

i.e. the class is not restricted to a particular tag. It starts with a period (.). Is it a problem ?