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HTML Email formatting - spaces at the top

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irpworks

USA
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Posted - Sep 17 2009 : 21:55:01

When sending emails with a background graphic as stationary, there is a space at the top before the content is to begin so that the 'stationary header' shows. It always looks fine in my Outlook and other programs I've tested with. (Version 6.28R)

However several users with Outlook 2007 (and a few odd programs) report that the content of my email starts at the top of the page - over the graphics in the background - making them hard to read. When they send the emails back to me it appears that way for me too.

Is there a change in coding that I can do to ensure that the content begins below the top graphic?

Currently I am coding with a BODY topMargin=150 tag. It seems to work and has worked but I'm getting more and more complaints. Maybe a change in Microsoft Outlook? Any advice is appreciated.

Forgive if this is covered in the forums, I searched and did not find it.

xequte

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Posted - Sep 18 2009 : 16:47:34

Hi

I can't see any reason that Outlook 2007 should render HTML differently than earlier versions, so perhaps it is modifying the HTML in some way (for reasons we cannot understand).

At any rate, TopMargin is not a universally accepted tag so you should avoid its use:

http://www.idocs.com/tags/document/_BODY_TOPMARGIN.html

I think it would be preferable to use CSS in the header:

<style>

</style>

Nigel
Xequte Software
nigel@xequte.com

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