Posts Tagged ‘floated tables’

Floated tables vs table cells, what’s the best approach?

When building an email template you will come across two common layout methods, floated tables or using table cells to create columns. Both of these methods are fundamental layout techniques and form the foundation of any email campaign. Both techniques have different strengths and weaknesses, but ultimately what is the best technique to use? Find out in my comparison between the two.

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Turning floated tables into columns in Outlook

One of the many layout techniques for email is floating tables. This technique basically provides similar behaviour to the float CSS property but is supported pretty much everywhere. Problem is that pesky email client Outlook will attempt to ruin your party with its poor CSS box model. Sadly Outlook and table widths just don’t add up, which introduces problems like content appearing below its designed place as well alignment issues. Thankfully however, thanks to Mike Ragan from Action Rocket, there’s a cool new way to workaround this issue.

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