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HTML email buttons that work
<div>
<!--[if mso]>
<v:roundrect xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" href="http://www.EXAMPLE.com/" style="height:40px;v-text-anchor:middle;width:300px;" arcsize="10%" stroke="f" fillcolor="#d62828">
<w:anchorlock/>
<center style="color:#ffffff;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;">
Button Text Here!
</center>
</v:roundrect>
<![endif]-->
<![if !mso]>
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr>
<td align="center" width="300" height="40" bgcolor="#d62828" style="-webkit-border-radius: 5px; -moz-border-radius: 5px; border-radius: 5px; color: #ffffff; display: block;">
<a href="http://www.EXAMPLE.com/" style="font-size:16px; font-weight: bold; font-family:sans-serif; text-decoration: none; line-height:40px; width:100%; display:inline-block">
<span style="color: #ffffff;">
Button Text Here!
</span>
</a>
</td>
</tr> </table>
<![endif]>
</div>
@deniszavadskiy
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does this code work properly on windows 10 mail app?

@hayds
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hayds commented Jan 10, 2018

Thanks for this repo it's awesome. I wanted to have a button that changed width dynamically based on the text inside.

I found this https://litmus.com/community/discussions/538-vml-outlook-07-10-13-unwanted-20px-padding-at-the-bottom which shows how to use mso-fit-shape-to-text:true

And this https://litmus.com/community/discussions/1269-flexible-multi-line-bulletproof-buttons which shows how to avoid some unwanted padding.

This is my end result

<!--[if mso]>
  <v:roundrect xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" href="http://www.EXAMPLE.com/" style="mso-wrap-style:none; mso-position-horizontal: center" arcsize="10%" strokecolor="#0368d4" strokeweight="1px" fillcolor="#d62828">
	<v:textbox style="mso-fit-shape-to-text:true">
		<center style="color:#ffffff;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;">Button Text Here!</center>
	</v:textbox>
  </v:roundrect>
  <![endif]-->
  <![if !mso]>
  <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> 
  <td align="center" width="300" height="40" bgcolor="#d62828" style="-webkit-border-radius: 5px; -moz-border-radius: 5px; border-radius: 5px; color: #ffffff; display: block;">
    <a href="http://www.EXAMPLE.com/" style="font-size:16px; font-weight: bold; font-family:sans-serif; text-decoration: none; line-height:40px; width:100%; display:inline-block">
    <span style="color: #ffffff;">
      Button Text Here!
    </span>
    </a>
  </td> 
  </tr> </table> 
  <![endif]>
</div>

Seems to work great in outlook 2016 which uses word to render HTML

@IamBigFool
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Hey i got an issue with the code, the roundrect was overlapping the text. Can anyone give me some guides, appreciate with thanks.

<!--[if mso]> <v:roundrect xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" style="height:36px;v-text-anchor:middle;width:350px;position:absolute; top:280; left:310;" arcsize="5%" strokecolor="#EB7035" fillcolor="#EB7035"> <w:anchorlock/> <center style="color:#ffffff;font-family: sans-serif; letter-spacing: 1px; font-size:16px;">My Text!</center> </v:roundrect> <![endif]-->

@charlie-s
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Everyone that asked how to center the button, just wrap it in a <center> tag. I tried to horizontally align the v:roundrect with the o:hralign="center" attribute (along with anything else that I could find or made sense) but nothing really works. Best to just center the outer tag and the text with simple <center> tags:

<center>
    <v:roundrect xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" href="https://www.example.com" style="height: 45px; v-text-anchor: middle; width: 300px;" arcsize="10%" stroke="f" fillcolor="#6699ff">
        <w:anchorlock/>
        <center style="color: #ffffff; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">
            Text
        </center>
    </v:roundrect>
</center>

@jaxx1rr
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jaxx1rr commented Sep 9, 2019

what if I don't want stroke="f", why is there no documentation on the internet about this? microsoft devs should be tortured daily

@roloep85
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roloep85 commented Sep 9, 2024

The link seems to not work sometimes in Outlook. Will this convert it to an image in some cases - like forwarding it?
Edit: I've added another normal anchor tag around the <v:roundrect> element and seems to work.

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