HTML Email Link Colors

metalshark

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Jan 3, 2011
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Do email providers still cut off css attributes above the <body> tag?

I'm designing an Autoresponder for a company and it looks real nice if I make my navigation links a certain color. I tried to inline the style

<a style="color:#FE2;" href=" http:// www. link .com ">

but it only shows properly on some emails clients, while others just the regular blue. This is such a problem because the background color for the link is a darker blue and is barely visible if it doesn't show up.

Also, having the css above the body such as

a:link {
color: #333333;
}
a:visited {
color: #FFFFFF;
}
a:hover {
color: #CCCCCC;
background-color: #333333;
text-decoration: none;
}
a:active {
color: #333333;
}


^^works fine, but I know email clients sometimes cut anything above the body.


What a pain the ass. I was thinking of having the css above the body, AS WELL as the background color - that way if it happened to get cut off then it would appear as just normal links.

Anyone have some good input on this? or should I just fuck off and take this to an HTML forum?