Building html emails is a royal pain in the arse. Every email clients buggers up something along the way. Here’s the most annoying things I’ve figured out along the way…

Microsoft Outlook 2007

• You can’t use background images in table cells. Thanks Microsoft.
• Forgetting a width on a table cell can cause the whole thing to blow apart to full page width, even though the main table width is defined

Firefox

• Table cells with no align specified default to center aligned. Everyone else defaults to left.

Hotmail

• WTF?!. Images randomly completely screw everything up unless you specifically add an inline style of “display:block”

I shall add to this list as I discover more mind numbingly stupid things I have to deal with…