HTML Email to Outlook, outbind?
Hello all,
I'm coding an html newsletter for the company I work for. At the top I've made some links to the different articles in the newsletter, like so:
<a href="#article1" title="a title">text</a>And at the article I've created the anchors to jump to:
<a name="article1"></a>Just like you would do with any internal anchor on a webpage... so far, so good.
When I open the sent email in Outlook and hover my cursor over all the links, I notice that the title attribute does not appear as a tool tip. In stead the href is displayed. I find this weird, but ok, I can deal with it for now.
The internal anchors don't have a href attribute and for some reason Outlook decides to create something like 'outbind:extremely_long_code' and displays that in the tool tip, which looks just ugly.
Now, I did the Google trick, and it seems that this has to do with the lack of the href attribute, making Outlook think it has to be a relative path and therefor putting it's own non-standard protocol (outbind) in it. This may sound logical in a Microsoft kinda way... to me it's not.
I just want the title to appear. Anyone know how?
Thanx,
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JeevesBond posted this at 11:15 — 12th March 2008.
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Argggh, I know the area of HTML in e-mails is horribly fraught with stupid problems like this one. Is it possible to use an id instead of a name. So instead of your:
<a name="article1"></a>use:
<p id="article1">Article text</p>I've not got much experience with this sort of thing though, and am dreading having to do it.
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Jack Michaelson posted this at 14:56 — 14th March 2008.
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After some more research I only found out that it seems like this is not to be fixed, thanx MS
Still regretting there's no real HTML Email standard, although projects like http://www.email-standards.org look promising.
Anyway thanx for you suggestion about the internal links using id's, JeevesBond. I wasn't aware of that
Hmmm it's friday afternoon here, time for
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Shakespeare: onclick || !(onclick)
Megan posted this at 16:47 — 14th March 2008.
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I have nothing to add, except that it's nice to see you around again, Jack! I wish I could join you for that
- gotta wait another 5 hours until I can go home 
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JeevesBond posted this at 18:58 — 14th March 2008.
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Yeah, good to see you Jack. Have a good
Jack Michaelson posted this at 14:37 — 18th March 2008.
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Thanx, it's good to be back
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