Short answer: If you're safe, except not if you are sending to lots of hotmail users.
What can I expect?
You can expect most email programs, including web-based email readers, to render most of your styles correctly, if you follow some simple rules:
- Avoid linking to external stylesheets. Most email clients will strip them.
- Put the style in the body section of your email. That's because many clients will strip out the head section completely.
- Do not use generic "class" styles like
.small {
in your styles. The dot gets hacked out off the beginning by some. Instead, be explicit like
p.small
to define exactly what tag will get the class.
- Do not rely on your stylesheet for your message appearance.
- Avoid positioning. It probably just won't work.
- Don't style the body tag. It might get stripped out too. Instead wrap your email in one big div tag with your style on it.
- Use care if you style the hyperlinks or add hovering behavior. Add a custom class to all your a tags or you may conflict with a webmail client email reader.
- Javascript? HAHAHAHA! Do you want popups when you read your email? We can hope that mail clients never support javascript.
That's really the long an short of it from what we've gathered. Here's a great technical page describing the gory details...
Of course, you should always follow some other practices when you are composing any project for your email blast software:
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