Inline CSS for Email Body - Can get nowrap

Question

I'm sending inline styles formatted tables to email bodies for sending out reports.

The only problem I have is restricting the size of the table. No matter what I've tried, I can't get text to wrap inside a table. The tables just expand to the length of the longest thing in them.

I've done several different things that all work if I render to a page, but nothing seems to get outlook to wrap text in cells.

For example, no combination of these, even using container divs works:

width:1000px;
table-layout:fixed;
word-wrap:break-word;

here's a sample (fine on page - when the body of an HTML email opened in Outlook 2007 will not wrap - table goes to a massive width):

      <table style="margin-top:5px;width:1000px;table-layout:fixed;word-wrap:break-word;border-collapse: collapse;background-color: #dfe1e4;">
     <tr>
                   <th nowrap="true" style="text-align:center; font-size:14px;border: 1px solid #A69F9F;padding-right:10px;padding-left:10px;background-color: #42669a;color:#f0f8ff;">Description</th>
     </tr>
     <tr>
        <td style="word-wrap:break-word;text-align:left;padding-left:5px;padding-right:15px;border: 1px solid #A69F9F;">
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        </td>
     </tr>
   </table>

Thanks for any help

Answer 1

It's not supported in Outlook.