rowspans and colspans in html email

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KemanoThief picture KemanoThief · Jan 6, 2011 · Viewed 7.4k times · Source

Can rowspans and colspans be safely used when designing table-based HTML emails?

I have been told that they don't display correctly in Outlook 2007 and that tables must be nested in order to provide different size cells for layout.

Can anybody help or provide any links? Thanks

Answer

timroman picture timroman · Jan 18, 2011

Colspans are usually safe to use. Stay away from rowspans.

Your best option is to nest a new table within a cell instead of doing rowspans or colspans.

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