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Tango..........
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August 28, 2018
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Table height not displaying correctly

hi,

created a responsive late & for som reason table height doesn’t work on outlook.

any tricks to get this to show correctly?

thank you

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    ALsp
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    Legend
    August 28, 2018

    Tango..........  wrote

    Thanks for your response

    I actually dont want to set height but in outlook it is showing about 1 and a half rows where the table has 12.

    shows fine on say an iPhone but not Outlook on computer

    when I click on view in browser from outloo, that works

    Outcook is terribly limited. Actually, it's kind of surprising how many folks still use it. That said, when it comes to emails, simpler is always better. Here is an example of one of our mailers. It is designed to display perfectly in well-programmed desktop clients, such as Mozilla Thunderbird, and popular web-clients, such as Google Mail:

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    ALsp
    ALsp
    Legend
    August 28, 2018

    Why would you even need to set table height? That's usually indicative of bad design practice. Without knowing your reasoning, I would suggest adding the height as an inline CSS style directly on the table tag.

    <table style="min-height: 300px;"...

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    Tango..........Author
    Inspiring
    August 28, 2018

    Thanks for your response

    I actually dont want to set height but in outlook it is showing about 1 and a half rows where the table has 12.

    shows fine on say an iPhone but not Outlook on computer

    when I click on view in browser from outloo, that works

    Translate
    ALsp
    ALspCorrect answer
    Legend
    August 28, 2018

    Tango..........  wrote

    Thanks for your response

    I actually dont want to set height but in outlook it is showing about 1 and a half rows where the table has 12.

    shows fine on say an iPhone but not Outlook on computer

    when I click on view in browser from outloo, that works

    Outcook is terribly limited. Actually, it's kind of surprising how many folks still use it. That said, when it comes to emails, simpler is always better. Here is an example of one of our mailers. It is designed to display perfectly in well-programmed desktop clients, such as Mozilla Thunderbird, and popular web-clients, such as Google Mail:

    News from PVII

    We actually don't even check in Outlook. We feel that since no one complains, the information is at least accessible

    Translate
    Tango..........Author
    Inspiring
    August 28, 2018

    Sorry on iPhone. Created a responsive html email template

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