Can I use a DIV in an email template?

html email templates mailchimp
Crookbud picture Crookbud · Feb 20, 2014 · Viewed 40.9k times · Source

I am greatly confused about designing an email template for a mailchimp campaign. I want to know if I can use a div with a class of "Container" on my email template. Is using div tags supported by all mail clients? I am using DIV only for the container but in the inner part of the template I have used table, tr and td tags. Please let me know.

Thanks.

Answer

John picture John · Feb 20, 2014

You can use div, however tables are supported more consistently. If you try to go the div route, you'll find some of your CSS will fail.

Also, by going with tables, it opens up the old school html attributes that only work in tables. These include align, valign, bgcolor etc, all of which are 100% supported, while their CSS equivalents have partial support.

On a side note, here are all the resources you will need to get started in html email.

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