Create Email Action causing weirdness

I’m creating a HTML email, see

It all looks as it should when I preview in a browser. But then, after applying the Create Email Action it goes wrong. The “View this email in your browser” text at the very top of the page and the address and unsubscribe blurb at the very bottom freak out.

These two bit of text are styled as H4.smallprint and H4.smallprint2

It appears that this style / its styling is lost.

Could this be that these two items were created before applying the Action (other items may have been created when the Action was on)?

i.e. does it matter when the Action is applied?

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What happens if you remove the h4 tag from the text and use a regular style?

Joe

On 6 Oct 2010, at 17:06, Mark wrote:

I’m creating a HTML email, see
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It all looks as it should when I preview in a browser. But then, after applying the Create Email Action it goes wrong. The “View this email in your browser” text at the very top of the page and the address and unsubscribe blurb at the very bottom freak out.

These two bit of text are styled as H4.smallprint and H4.smallprint2

It appears that this style / its styling is lost.

Could this be that these two items were created before applying the Action (other items may have been created when the Action was on)?

i.e. does it matter when the Action is applied?

Thanks


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Hi Joe

I’ve removed the style from the text. The text has [No Style] applied to it in the Styles Pallet (which means it has the “p” tag style applied to it?).

It now works fine. It also works fine if I apply my H3 style.

But as soon as I apply my “smallprint” style it reverts to my “p tag” style. (13px not 11px). But the very bottom line about unsubsribing does appear to be 11px (even though the same style is applied to the line above).

Bizarre

Any ideas?

Mark


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This is starting to give me a headache!

I’ve deleted the items that are problematic. Redrawn them, triple checked the “smallprint” style, removed the links within the text - all looks great within FW, but as soon as I preview the 11px small print appears as 13px.

And it only does this when the Create Email Action is applied to the page.

Help.


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Hi Mark,

The Create Email Action is doing an awful lot to the styles in the resulting page. If you send through your document to our support team they can take a look and log a bug if necessary.

Cheers,

Joe

On 7 Oct 2010, at 11:28, Mark wrote:

This is starting to give me a headache!

I’ve deleted the items that are problematic. Redrawn them, triple checked the “smallprint” style, removed the links within the text - all looks great within FW, but as soon as I preview the 11px small print appears as 13px.

And it only does this when the Create Email Action is applied to the page.

Help.


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Hi Joe

I’ll send the file over

I thought the Create Email Action just changed the links to images so that the email app can find them… I hadn’t realised it changes styles / code?

Thanks

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It’s actually doing quite a lot behind the scenes.

Joe

On 7 Oct 2010, at 13:18, Mark wrote:

Hi Joe

I’ll send the file over

I thought the Create Email Action just changed the links to images so that the email app can find them… I hadn’t realised it changes styles / code?

Thanks

Mark


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Hi Mark,
The action does a lot of restructuring behind the scenes to get the
HTML that Freeway is optimizing for web use ready for email use.
From my notes here are some of the larger tasks the action is
undertaking;

  • Creates inline styles from those found in the document head
  • Pseudo styles (a:link, a:hover, etc) are be added to the document
    body for clients that support them
  • All relative links are made absolute
  • Replaces Freeway’s PageDiv with a table
  • Page meta data is removed
  • XMLNS attribute from the HTML tag is removed
  • Freeway’s Internet Explorer styles are removed
  • All links open in new windows for the aid of web mail users
  • Removes references to class names and IDs (as long as they aren’t
    being used by pseudo styles)
  • Removes all script tags from the page
  • Cleans up HTML output by removing empty lines
  • Floated images are set to align

I hope this helps.
Regards,
Tim.

On 7 Oct 2010, at 13:18, Mark wrote:

I thought the Create Email Action just changed the links to images
so that the email app can find them… I hadn’t realised it changes
styles / code?


Tim Plumb
Creative Director
Softpress Systems

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