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[Email Starter File] Lays Out Basic HTML Email Framework #email
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email-starter.html
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional //EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8"> <!-- utf-8 works for most cases -->
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width"> <!-- Forcing initial-scale shouldn't be necessary -->
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge"> <!-- Use the latest (edge) version of IE rendering engine -->
<meta name="x-apple-disable-message-reformatting"> <!-- Disable auto-scale in iOS 10 Mail entirely -->
<title></title> <!-- The title tag shows in email notifications, like Android 4.4. -->
<!-- Web Font / @font-face : BEGIN -->
<!-- NOTE: If web fonts are not required, lines 10 - 27 can be safely removed. -->
<!-- Desktop Outlook chokes on web font references and defaults to Times New Roman, so we force a safe fallback font. -->
<!--[if mso]>
<style>
* {
font-family: sans-serif !important;
}
</style>
<![endif]-->
<!-- All other clients get the webfont reference; some will render the font and others will silently fail to the fallbacks. More on that here: http://stylecampaign.com/blog/2015/02/webfont-support-in-email/ -->
<!--[if !mso]><!-->
<!-- insert web font reference, eg: <link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:400,700' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'> -->
<!--<![endif]-->
<!-- Web Font / @font-face : END -->
<!-- CSS Reset : BEGIN -->
<style>
/* What it does: Remove spaces around the email design added by some email clients. */
/* Beware: It can remove the padding / margin and add a background color to the compose a reply window. */
html,
body {
margin: 0 auto !important;
padding: 0 !important;
height: 100% !important;
width: 100% !important;
}
/* What it does: Stops email clients resizing small text. */
* {
-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;
}
/* What it does: Centers email on Android 4.4 */
div[style*="margin: 16px 0"] {
margin: 0 !important;
}
/* What it does: Stops Outlook from adding extra spacing to tables. */
table,
td {
mso-table-lspace: 0pt !important;
mso-table-rspace: 0pt !important;
}
/* What it does: Fixes webkit padding issue. Fix for Yahoo mail table alignment bug. Applies table-layout to the first 2 tables then removes for anything nested deeper. */
table {
border-spacing: 0 !important;
border-collapse: collapse !important;
table-layout: fixed !important;
margin: 0 auto !important;
}
table table table {
table-layout: auto;
}
/* What it does: Uses a better rendering method when resizing images in IE. */
img {
-ms-interpolation-mode:bicubic;
}
/* What it does: A work-around for email clients meddling in triggered links. */
*[x-apple-data-detectors], /* iOS */
.x-gmail-data-detectors, /* Gmail */
.x-gmail-data-detectors *,
.aBn {
border-bottom: 0 !important;
cursor: default !important;
color: inherit !important;
text-decoration: none !important;
font-size: inherit !important;
font-family: inherit !important;
font-weight: inherit !important;
line-height: inherit !important;
}
/* What it does: Prevents Gmail from displaying an download button on large, non-linked images. */
.a6S {
display: none !important;
opacity: 0.01 !important;
}
/* If the above doesn't work, add a .g-img class to any image in question. */
img.g-img + div {
display: none !important;
}
/* What it does: Prevents underlining the button text in Windows 10 */
.button-link {
text-decoration: none !important;
}
/* What it does: Removes right gutter in Gmail iOS app: https://github.com/TedGoas/Cerberus/issues/89 */
/* Create one of these media queries for each additional viewport size you'd like to fix */
/* Thanks to Eric Lepetit (@ericlepetitsf) for help troubleshooting */
@media only screen and (min-device-width: 375px) and (max-device-width: 413px) { /* iPhone 6 and 6+ */
.email-container {
min-width: 375px !important;
}
}
</style>
<!-- CSS Reset : END -->
<!-- Custum CSS : BEGIN -->
<style>
body { margin: 0; padding: 0; }
/* overrides for screen sizes under 660 */
@media only screen and (max-width: 600px) {
table.container { width: 480px !important; }
td.cols-2 table.l-col { width: 100% !important; }
td.cols-2 table.r-col { width: 100% !important; }
.center-on-narrow {
text-align: center !important;
display: block !important;
margin-left: auto !important;
margin-right: auto !important;
float: none !important;
}
}
/* overrides for screen sizes under 510 */
@media only screen and (max-width: 510px) {
table.container { width: 100% !important; }
td.cols-2 table.l-col { width: 100% !important; }
td.cols-2 table.r-col { width: 100% !important; }
}
table.container {
background: #dddddd;
}
</style>
<!-- Custum CSS : END -->
<!-- What it does: Makes background images in 72ppi Outlook render at correct size. -->
<!--[if gte mso 9]>
<xml>
<o:OfficeDocumentSettings>
<o:AllowPNG/>
<o:PixelsPerInch>96</o:PixelsPerInch>
</o:OfficeDocumentSettings>
</xml>
<![endif]-->
</head>
<body width="100%" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="margin: 0; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">
<center style="width: 100%; background: #ffffff; text-align: left;">
<!-- Email Body : BEGIN -->
<table role="presentation" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="center" width="600" style="margin: auto;" class="container">
</table>
<!-- Email Body : END -->
</center>
</body>
</html>
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