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Responsive email width in Gmail


I have this email template:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
    <title>title</title>
    <style type="text/css">
    img { max-width: 600px;  -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;}
    .ReadMsgBody { width: 100%; }
    .ExternalClass {width:100%;}
    .backgroundTable {margin:0 auto; padding:0; width:100%;!important;}
    body {
      width: 100%;
      height: 100%;
      direction: rtl;
    }
    .force-full-width {
      width: 100% !important;
    }
    </style>
    <style type="text/css" media="only screen and (max-width: 599px)">
      @media only screen and (max-width: 599px) {
        table[class*="w320"] {
          width: 320px !important;
        }
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body dir="rtl" class="body" style="width:100vw; padding:0; margin:0; display:block; background:#ffffff; -webkit-text-size-adjust:none" bgcolor="#ffffff">
  <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
    <tr>
      <td align="center" valign="top" style="background-color:#ffffff" width="100%">
      <center>
        <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="600" class="w320">
          <tr>
            <td align="center" valign="top">
              <table class="force-full-width"  width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" bgcolor="#ef6900">
                <tr>
                  <td style="background-color:#ef6900; color:#ffffff; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">
                    Some text
                  </td>
                </tr>
              </table>
              <!-- more tables -->
            </td>
          </tr>
        </table>
      </center>
      </td>
    </tr>
  </table>
  </body>
</html>

It does work on Gmail app in Android, but in desktop version email content overflows <u></u>. If I remove width:100vw; from body tag, desktop works fine but content overflows in mobile version. My Question is How can I make body width 100% in mobile and 600px on desktop? I tried max-width: 600px; in body style but it doesn't work. I also tried 100% instead of 100vw (because 100 vw is width of screen) and it does not work either.


Solution

  • I made a few changes, hope this is the outcome you were after. I have done the following:

    • removed width:100vwfrom the body
    • added the class body you are using on the body tag with the body CSS defined.
    • Changed the media query (removed space)

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
    	<title>title</title>
    	<style type="text/css">img { max-width: 600px;  -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;}
        .ReadMsgBody { width: 100%; }
        .ExternalClass {width:100%;}
        .backgroundTable {margin:0 auto; padding:0; width:100%;!important;}
        body, .body {
          width: 100%;
          height: 100%;
          direction: rtl;
        }
        .force-full-width {
          width: 100% !important;
        }
    	</style>
    	<style media="only screen and (max-width: 599px)" type="text/css">@media only screen and (max-width:599px) {
            table.w320 {
              width: 320px !important;
            }
          }
    	</style>
    </head>
    <body bgcolor="#ffffff" class="body" dir="ltr" style="padding:0; margin:0; display:block; background:#ffffff; -webkit-text-size-adjust:none">
    <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
    	<tbody>
    		<tr>
    			<td align="center" style="background-color:#ffffff" valign="top" width="100%">
    			<center>
    			<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="w320" width="600">
    				<tbody>
    					<tr>
    						<td align="center" valign="top">
    						<table bgcolor="#ef6900" cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0" class="force-full-width" width="100%">
    							<tbody>
    								<tr>
    									<td style="background-color:#ef6900; color:#ffffff; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">Some text</td>
    								</tr>
    							</tbody>
    						</table>
    						<!-- more tables --></td>
    					</tr>
    				</tbody>
    			</table>
    			</center>
    			</td>
    		</tr>
    	</tbody>
    </table>
    </body>
    </html>

    Above code tested in Outlook 2017 and Gmail app (v8.2.11) works properly now.

    If you have any questions let me know.