CSS in Outlook?

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jpjeffery

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CSS in Outlook? Tuesday, July 07, 2009 2:39 AM (permalink)

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Hi

On the off-chance that someone here is suitably knowledgable...I have a VB Script which queries various IT systems then produces and HTML report which it saves as a file on the file server and uses this also to produce an HTML format e-mail.

I've been rewriting the HTML code produced by the VB script to use CSS. This new style code is working fine when I open the .htm file, in that it's using the Verdana/Sans-serif font/font-family I've specified, but the Outlook e-mail is now displayed as Times New Roman.

I can bully it in to submission by using an old-style <font face="Verdana"> tag but that just throws out the CSS!

It shouldn't be this hard, should it?

Here's an example of the resultant code:

<HTML>
 <HEAD>
 <TITLE>IT Systems Checks Report</TITLE>
 <STYLE TYPE="text/css">
 <!--
 BODY { background-color: #FFFFFF;
        font-family: Verdana;
        font-size : 100% }
        color : #000000 }
 .OK   { font-family: Verdana,SANS-SERIF; color: #000000}
 .Warn { color: #FF6600}
 .Err  { color: #ff0000}
 -->
 </STYLE>
 <SPAN CLASS="OK"><b>IT Systems Checks report for 07/07/2009 (script v1.36 - 06/07/2009)</b><br><br>
 <hr><b><i>SUMMARY OF ISSUES FOUND:<br> (for "Script Output / Description" field on TeamWorks portal page)</i></b><br>
 PRT01\Spooler<br>
 SRV02\Spooler<br>
 <hr><b><i>FOLLOW-UP ACTIONS:<br> (for "Comments" field on TeamWorks portal page)</i></b><br>
   PRT01\Spooler:<br>
     J <br>
   SRV02\Spooler:<br>
     J<br>
 <hr><b><i>FULL REPORT:</i></b><br>
 <FONT color=#000000><i>Internet access</i><br>
   OK<br>
 <br>
 <FONT color=#000000><i>BlackLists Listing</i><br>
   Not currently listed in the BlackLists<br>
 <br>
 <FONT color=#000000><i>Print Services</i><br>
 <FONT color=#000000>  PRT01 -<SPAN CLASS="Err">   Spooler service failed to respond to query<br></SPAN>
 <FONT color=#000000>  HKPRT -<FONT color=#000000>  Hong Kong Print Spooler service online<br>
 <FONT color=#000000>  SRV02 -<SPAN CLASS="Err">   Spooler service failed to respond to query<br></SPAN>
 <br>
 <FONT color=#000000><i>Follow-up Actions for errors</i><br>
   PRT01\Spooler:<br>
     J <br>
   SRV02\Spooler:<br>
     J<br>
 <FONT color=#000000><br><br>
   *** END OF REPORT ***<br>
 (Note that code such as '<FONT color=#000000>' is due to be replaced by the appropriate <SPAN CLASS=' lines.)

So, what the heck is going on when the HTML e-mail is being produced/displayed in Times New Roman?

JJ

Variables won't. Constants aren't
Apostrophes do not belong in plurals of anything, especially not acronyms like HDD, PC, CPU and so on

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ebgreen Total Posts : 8219 Scores: 98 Reward points : 0 Joined: 7/12/2005 Status: offline	RE: CSS in Outlook? Tuesday, July 07, 2009 3:05 AM (permalink) 0 To be honest, I don't think the Outlook HTML parser supports CSS. "... when you are good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!" - The Tick Goog places to start:http://www.visualbasicscript.com/m_24727/tm.htm http://www.visualbasicscript.com/m_47117/tm.htm
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jpjeffery Total Posts : 33 Scores: 0 Reward points : 0 Joined: 11/17/2008 Status: offline	RE: CSS in Outlook? Tuesday, July 07, 2009 3:36 AM (permalink) 0 Well, there's the thing, everything I read suggested it does. To be fair, I didn't read THAT much but still, what I didn't see was en explicit statement that it doesn't. JJ Variables won't. Constants aren't Apostrophes do not belong in plurals of anything, especially not acronyms like HDD, PC, CPU and so on
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ebgreen Total Posts : 8219 Scores: 98 Reward points : 0 Joined: 7/12/2005 Status: offline	RE: CSS in Outlook? Tuesday, July 07, 2009 8:40 AM (permalink) 0 What did you read that suggests it does? "... when you are good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!" - The Tick Goog places to start:http://www.visualbasicscript.com/m_24727/tm.htm http://www.visualbasicscript.com/m_47117/tm.htm
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RE: CSS in Outlook? Tuesday, July 07, 2009 8:48 AM (permalink)

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MS has explicitly stated that Office 2007 at least only supports a subset of CSS:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa338201.aspx

"... when you are good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!" - The Tick
Goog places to start:http://www.visualbasicscript.com/m_24727/tm.htm
http://www.visualbasicscript.com/m_47117/tm.htm

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jpjeffery Total Posts : 33 Scores: 0 Reward points : 0 Joined: 11/17/2008 Status: offline	RE: CSS in Outlook? Tuesday, July 07, 2009 9:09 AM (permalink) 0 Well, I can't remember and all the subsequent evidence suggests my speed-reading skills need improving! So, Inline Styles it is...dammit. JJ Variables won't. Constants aren't Apostrophes do not belong in plurals of anything, especially not acronyms like HDD, PC, CPU and so on
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