Disappearing Table Padding
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Recent changes to Google's webmail clients (Gmail and Google Business Apps) and Yahoo's (New and Classic mail) see the HTML table padding attribute being ignored. This could be making your emails look ugly; the results of this can be seen below:
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To see if your email is affected by this change, it's well worth signing up for a free Gmail account and sending yourself a test:
How to fix it
Although Google no longer respects the padding attribute on an HTML table, it does respect the CSS padding attribute when applied as a style on a <TD> (table cell). If you're not HTML savvy, don't worry about what that means; our guide lets you fix the issue in a few clicks directly in the Etelligent Editor.
1. Start by opening the affected component in the Etelligent graphical editor. From here you then need to select the affected cell by left clicking onto the cell anywhere and then selecting the cell <td> using the tag selector at the bottom of the window.
2. Once selected, go to the tool bar at the top of the window and click onto the Edit Table/Cell button and select Edit Cell from the drop down menu.
3. In the Cell Properties window under the Properties tab set the Padding boxes to the appropriate values for your email template. Often this is 5 or 10 pixels, but to emphasise our example we've set it to 20. Then click on the ‘’ok’’ button at the bottom of the window.
4. Commit the changes to the Component and then send a test email to ensure that it looks as intended.
