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Responsive emails
<!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 name="viewport" content="width=device-width" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Really Simple HTML Email Template</title>
<style>
/* -------------------------------------
GLOBAL
------------------------------------- */
* {
margin:0;
padding:0;
font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Helvetica", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 100%;
line-height: 1.6;
}
img {
max-width: 100%;
}
body {
-webkit-font-smoothing:antialiased;
-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;
width: 100%!important;
height: 100%;
}
/* -------------------------------------
ELEMENTS
------------------------------------- */
a {
color: #348eda;
}
.btn-primary, .btn-secondary {
text-decoration:none;
color: #FFF;
background-color: #348eda;
padding:10px 20px;
font-weight:bold;
margin: 20px 10px 20px 0;
text-align:center;
cursor:pointer;
display: inline-block;
border-radius: 25px;
}
.btn-secondary{
background: #aaa;
}
.last {
margin-bottom: 0;
}
.first{
margin-top: 0;
}
/* -------------------------------------
BODY
------------------------------------- */
table.body-wrap {
width: 100%;
padding: 20px;
}
table.body-wrap .container{
border: 1px solid #f0f0f0;
}
/* -------------------------------------
FOOTER
------------------------------------- */
table.footer-wrap {
width: 100%;
clear:both!important;
}
.footer-wrap .container p {
font-size:12px;
color:#666;
}
table.footer-wrap a{
color: #999;
}
/* -------------------------------------
TYPOGRAPHY
------------------------------------- */
h1,h2,h3{
font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; line-height: 1.1; margin-bottom:15px; color:#000;
margin: 40px 0 10px;
line-height: 1.2;
font-weight:200;
}
h1 {
font-size: 36px;
}
h2 {
font-size: 28px;
}
h3 {
font-size: 22px;
}
p, ul {
margin-bottom: 10px;
font-weight: normal;
font-size:14px;
}
ul li {
margin-left:5px;
list-style-position: inside;
}
/* ---------------------------------------------------
RESPONSIVENESS
Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
------------------------------------------------------ */
/* Set a max-width, and make it display as block so it will automatically stretch to that width, but will also shrink down on a phone or something */
.container {
display:block!important;
max-width:600px!important;
margin:0 auto!important; /* makes it centered */
clear:both!important;
}
/* This should also be a block element, so that it will fill 100% of the .container */
.content {
padding:20px;
max-width:600px;
margin:0 auto;
display:block;
}
/* Let's make sure tables in the content area are 100% wide */
.content table {
width: 100%;
}
</style>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#f6f6f6">
<!-- body -->
<table class="body-wrap">
<tr>
<td></td>
<td class="container" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<!-- content -->
<div class="content">
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<p>Hi there,</p>
<p>Sometimes all you want is to send a simple HTML email with a basic design.</p>
<h1>Really simple HTML email template</h1>
<p>This is a really simple email template. It's sole purpose is to get you to click the button below.</p>
<h2>How do I use it?</h2>
<p>All the information you need is on GitHub.</p>
<p><a href="https://github.com/leemunroe/html-email-template" class="btn-primary">View the source and instructions on GitHub</a></p>
<p>Feel free to use, copy, modify this email template as you wish.</p>
<p>Thanks, have a lovely day.</p>
<p><a href="http://twitter.com/leemunroe">Follow @leemunroe on Twitter</a>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
<!-- /content -->
</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- /body -->
<!-- footer -->
<table class="footer-wrap">
<tr>
<td></td>
<td class="container">
<!-- content -->
<div class="content">
<table>
<tr>
<td align="center">
<p>Don't like these annoying emails? <a href="#"><unsubscribe>Unsubscribe</unsubscribe></a>.
</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div><!-- /content -->
</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- /footer -->
</body>
</html>
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