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HTML

Posted by Kristian Woods
Kristian Woods
23,414 Points

Do you have to use HTML tables in order to create an HTML email?

I found a course on responsive HTML emails on treehouse - in the course, the teacher uses tables to lay out the content. I understand that mail clients strip the head, body, style tags - which also means you can't use an external stylesheet or even embed the styling in the head tag - so you're only left with inline styling.

However, I created my html email with an external stylesheet. Then, when I was ready, created a style tag in the head, copied my CSS into the HTML, then I found something online from MailChimp that allows you to copy and paste your markup into complier and it spits out all your styles as inline. Then I deleted all the necessary tags myself.

I found this way easier than using tables. Is this considered bad practise?

Thanks

1 Answer

Rafael Ferreira
Rafael Ferreira
13,086 Points
Rafael Ferreira
Rafael Ferreira
13,086 Points

Not an expert, but what I've heard is that you don't necessarily need to use tables, but most people still do, due the fact there is so many email clients out there and some of them don't support anything else but tables, or is easier that way.

Check out this episode of the Shop Talk Show

Hope it helps!