Bloody HTML signatures

[Russinating]

If there's one thing I hate about coding it's these relics from the 90s.

I've updated ours recently to be a bit more feature-rich but I'm battling keeping it as minimal as possible by removing link styles etc. Trouble is what I see in Chrome from the template, even what I see the first time round in Gmail, isn't what I get.

The left is what I get when viewing the raw template in Chrome. It's also what I see when I first paste it into Gmail and send a test email to myself. However after some unspecified period of time it then starts looking like the right, with link borders/underlines and all.

How do I get rid of them for good?!



If you want to fiddle with the HTML/inspect it I've uploaded the template for mine to jonesmillbank.com/Russell.html.

TIA.

 

[Russinating]

It's a small thing, but you've put 'text-decoration' on most of the footer <a> elements twice. The second one is the most important of those (as it overrides the previous) and some of those are missing the '!important' flag, assuming that's what's making the difference.

I'd go through and ensure it's only on the elements once, and with the right flag added.

Yeah I had that from a previous template where I swear some mail software would ignore anything with !important so the one before was a fallback. I've removed it now if that's changed.

And yeah, no luck, still got underlines.

 

[Russinating]

It actually appears it's a bug with Chrome that strips text-decoration rules from pasted HTML code. In order to fix it I've had to edit every link manually via Inspect within the signature text field and add it to the element.style. Utterly, utterly bizzare, but fortunately there's only 7 signatures.

And yeah, I've always been on the fence as to images but it seems more and more the norm and, as you say, if you'd expect anyone to have an image in their signature it'd be a company like us. They're all linked rather than embedded/attached via CID though for that reason; I hate trying to find an actual email attachment amongst a load of images.

That's a pretty stringent rule though! It'd also block any emails from people using an email tracker which is quite a few, and certainly every single newsletter-type email.