[strawbleu]

Ok, I am sure this is really bad CSS, however to please a client I am building an Outlook editable HTML signature and to do this it seems that all style elements need to be applied as style="" on the HTML tags.

1) Does anyone know a way around this
2) If not; can you user 'hover' within a style="" attribute - and how do you do it?

Cheers, Jon

[Bill Posters]

1) No
2) No

[Stickman]

It's not possible. You'd have to use javascript for an inline hover effect - but it won't work in outlook.

<a href="#" onmouseover="this.style.color='red';" onmouseout="this.style.color='blue';">Link</a>

[adras]

Save you signiture as an HTML file, and then in Outlook you can use an HTML file as the signiture. You can have the <style> tag in the head of the document of your HTML file...that should work but I've never tired it though.

[strawbleu]

You would think so, wouldn't you?

Well for anyone else with this problem - it appears that, for some reason, Outlook only seems to pay attention to styles applied using the style="" method and not by creating either DIVs, SPANs or using class="".

I am happy to be proven wrong on this, but I've ended up using a signature to creeat my emails, and then deleting the insert CRs prior to editing.

If someone has a 'this is how you build Outlook friendly html formatted templates tutorial' then I'd be over-joyed to read it!

Cheers, jon

[stickmus]

Have you seen this?

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/cssemail/

not sure if it'll do hovers, but he does mention :link so...