HTML Coding Tips for Email Coding HTML for email might sound easy, but there are a lot of industry best practices that you might want to know before you begin. General Do not use
tags Do not use

tags Do not use padding anywhere All content must be tabled Do not use javascripting Do not rely on any content in the

Do not use external style sheets, or styling in the header Use spacer images to define blank space, or where possible slice the white space into the images Do not use border attribute – if you need a 1px border is must be created by nesting  a centered table inside another table that is 2px wider, that has a background of the border you want.  The top and bottom parts of the border must be created using images. Avoid rowspan, and use colspans sparingly. Text All text must be wrapped in a that defines the color, font-family, font-size and font-weight (if bold) Do not rely on font styling put into the header, table or td Text alignment must be defined in the td Text should be either arial or verdana Avoid use of lists (either
    or
      ).  Instead use bullets, either text or images.  Ideally table the bullet and text in separate s Text  size should not be less than 11px Images Define height and width of all images Image "display" should always be defined (block or inline) Images with text should ALWAYS have alt tags Do not rely on aligned images.  Always place the content in a table and align left or right White space should be sliced into the images (rather than relying on spacer images) No image (including spacer images) should have a height or width of less than 5px Do not use image maps Links All links but mailtos should be targeted to a blank  or new page Link color and text-decoration (if not underlined) should be defined in the tag, and again in a tag inside the that wraps the linked text