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Please stop the insanity. HTML is not designed to work over email and is not capable of describing an email thread, a conversation. Aside from that HTML over

Please stop the insanity. HTML is not designed to work over email and is not capable of describing an email thread, a conversation. Aside from that HTML over email is ridiculously trivial. Super trivial. It isn't the HTML that is challenging but the CSS over email that is challenging. It takes some practice to figure out, but if you are even remotely competent you DO NOT need table insanity. Tables are for tabular data only. These are screenshots of actual emails I created back in 2006 for a company that no longer exists. It's a bit easier now than it was back then. https://prettydiff.com/email/ https://prettydiff.com/email/

whstl 3y ago
When you have absolute freedom to design the emails around the limitations, sure, that works and is certainly much better than the soup of tables and IE11/Office stuff. However even with that you still gotta test on multiple clients. If you want to use something like border-radius, for example, it won't work on some versions of Outlook, for example [1]. You either show a slightly different layout or you use workarounds. There are plenty of other examples like that. I personally just use very simple emails, so it's <p> and <h1> etc. But other people have to work around those limitations, and not everyone is a developer with design knowledge that can tweak the design to a point where it is both simple and good looking. [1] https://www.caniemail.com/search/?s=radius https://www.caniemail.com/search/?s=radius