I am composing an HTML email using a service (MailChimp). The way that MailChimp marks up headings is to use a SPAN tag and gives the tag the inline style of display:block.
MS Outlook 2010 ignores this style. I cannot find any work around. Thus, headings wrap, breaking the desired page display.
Yes, I know that Outlook uses MS Word to display HTML.
Assume that I cannot intervene and hand edit the markup.
How do I get MS Outlook to accept the CSS style display:block and display a SPAN tag as a block level element?
The CSS display attribute is not supported in this version of MS Outlook.
Here's "The Book" on what you can and cannot use:
campaignmonitor.com/css/
Basically, if you can't change your mark-up to a natively-block item, you're stuck.
The best thing is to do it the old fashion way unfortunately. =[ Use tables over tables. so tables=blocks.
I found myself in this exact situation: needing to create header styles that displayed correctly in outlook without the ability to edit the HTML because I'm handing the template off to a client.
I imagine you've already solved this, but to anyone else who spent several hours trying to answer this question and stumbles across this thread, here's how I fixed it:
Delete Mailchimp's default H1, H2, etc.
Create your own header styles (I named them Header, Sub-Header, etc. just to avoid confusion)
Use the new header styles as you wish. The new headings display as blocks.
I'm not exactly sure what's going on under the hood as I can't inspect in Outlook, but my guess is that by not using the default styles either Mailchimp wraps the header text in divs instead of spans.
