In outlook html email, float does not work

问题:

I want this layout where I have a rectangular box. And inside the box on the left there is a text and on the right there is an image. This looks fine in the browser, but when sent out as an html email, in outlook the float right doesn't seem to work. It puts the image in the next line under the text. Any ideas on how to make this work? (I am trying to avoid using tables.)

<div style="width: 100%;border-style:solid;overflow: hidden;">

    <span style="float: left;">  
         <h3> Your appointment Details</h3>
    </span> 
    <span style="float: right;">
        <img src="someImage"/>
    </span>

</div>

回答1:

When it comes to rendering HTML, most email clients are primitive and will break a lot of well formed HTML elements.

I would recommend some online resources such as:

How To Code HTML Emails: MailChimp

This SO discussion may be helpful:

What guidelines for HTML email design are there?

回答2:

Very late to the conversation, but here is how to "float" in html email using align="" instead.

Example here

Also, if you are looking for resources on html email (I assume you are as the answer you marked correct is very general), here is a huge list of resources.

回答3:

This is a really good guide from Mail Chimp on Coding for HTML Emails:

http://kb.mailchimp.com/article/how-to-code-html-emails

Some basic tips:

• Use tables for layout.
• Set your widest table to be maximum of 600px wide.
• Don't try and use JavaScript or Flash
• Don't use CSS in a style tag as some mail clients will discard it.
• Use inline CSS styles only.

Basically code your emails as if it was roughly 2003.

回答4:

CampaignMonitor provide this rather brilliant guide to all CSS support across multiple email clients, which is also available as a pdf or xls download.

As the answers above say, email support for CSS is very limited, mostly due to Microsoft's descision to use Word as its html rendering engine.

回答5:

I've found a way to apply float on Outlook.com.
Just capitalize the tag like Float:left.

<span style="Float:left;">Content to float</span>

Maybe you should use !important too;
I tested it and it worked.

回答6:

check out https://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/ here it has listed what are all the things supported and not supported in email

Instead of float you can use an outer table and put contents you want to float left in left td of outer table.

this is not an elegant answer but I did it this way

回答7:

Simple floating images can be like

<img src="yourimage" align="left" />

BUT that way you won't get solid results with padding between text and image, outlook removes margin and padding and your text will stick right next to the image. So try this:

<div style="text-align:justify;">

...a lot of text here untill you want to insert an image that floats left...

    <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="left" style="float: left;">
        <tr>
            <td>
                <img src="yourimage" align="left" vspace="4" />
            </td>
            <td width="15">&nbsp;</td>
        </tr>
    </table>

...a lot more text here until you need an image that floats right...

    <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="right" style="float: right;">
        <tr>
            <td width="15">&nbsp;</td>
            <td>
                <img src="yourimage" align="left" vspace="4" />
            </td>
        </tr>
    </table>

... a lot more text here...

</div>

You need to wrap a 'table' element around it to get the padding-margin effect to work in Gmail, Outlook (online), Microsoft Outlook (desktop client),...

Give the table an align=left or right attribute. (Edit answer here: in addition and fallback for other email clients also give the table a float value so do both. They are back-ups to each other. Some clients understand "float", others understand "align", some understand both,...) Your table will float in the text almost like an image does. The only difference is that in outlook a table generates an automatic line break in the text where an image with align left or right does not generate breaks.

For setting the margin, since we are now working with a table, add an extra "td" with a width="15" to the left or right of your image cell and a non-breaking-space in it. (or a transparant gif -> spacer.gif)

 

You better not leave cells empty because otherwise the width of your cell will not be respected in certain email clients

For top and bottom margin we can use the 'vspace' attribute, don't forget to give the image an align = left or right attribute. Otherwise the 'vspace' will not work.

回答8:

When you are floating something to the right of something the right floating element should allways apear first in code. Like this:

<div style="width: 100%;border-style:solid;overflow: hidden;">
    <img src="someImage"  style="float: right;"/>
    <h3> Your appointment Details</h3>
</div>