July 24, 2015
I’ve been using this template as a guide to create HTML newsletters. These can be uploaded to FTP, and hyperlinked on a website, or embedded in an email.
I haven’t changed the original template much, but please refer to the original to see more content included.
<!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>Blank Responsive Newletter 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 {
text-decoration: none;
color: #FFF;
background-color: #348eda;
border: solid #348eda;
border-width: 10px 20px;
line-height: 2;
font-weight: bold;
margin-right: 10px;
text-align: center;
cursor: pointer;
display: inline-block;
border-radius: 25px;
}
.btn-secondary {
text-decoration: none;
color: #FFF;
background-color: #aaa;
border: solid #aaa;
border-width: 10px 20px;
line-height: 2;
font-weight: bold;
margin-right: 10px;
text-align: center;
cursor: pointer;
display: inline-block;
border-radius: 25px;
}
.last {
margin-bottom: 0;
}
.first {
margin-top: 0;
}
.padding {
padding: 10px 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;
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, ol {
margin-bottom: 10px;
font-weight: normal;
font-size: 14px;
}
ul li, ol 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;
}
/* Set the padding on the td rather than the div for Outlook compatibility */
.body-wrap .container {
padding: 20px;
}
/* This should also be a block element, so that it will fill 100% of the .container */
.content {
max-width: 600px;
margin: 0 auto;
display: block;
}
/* Let's make sure tables in the content area are 100% wide */
.content table {
width: 100%;
}
img {width: 100%; min-width: 500px;}
</style>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#f6f6f6">
<!-- body -->
<table class="body-wrap" bgcolor="#f6f6f6">
<tr>
<td></td>
<td class="container" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<!-- content -->
<div class="content">
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<!-- INCLUDE YOUR CONTENT IN THIS AREA -->
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
<!-- /content -->
</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- /body -->
<!-- footer -->
<!--
<table class="footer-wrap">
<tr>
<td></td>
<td class="container">
<div class="content">
<table>
<tr>
<td align="center">
<p>Don't like these annoying emails? <a href="#"><unsubscribe>Unsubscribe</unsubscribe></a>.<!-- UPDATE THIS EMAIL TO SOMETHING RELEVANT -->
</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>
-->
<!-- /footer -->
</body>
</html>
