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Why Aren’t My Emails Displaying Properly?

General Questions Updated on May 3, 2022

Many email clients ignore CSS and JavaScript within your messages. Forwarding can also disrupt style sheets. Javascript should never be used in emails, and CSS should be used sparingly. As a rule CSS should not be referenced from third party sites and must be used inline.

Also, Microsoft HTML editors, such as Frontpage and MS Word, insert non-standard HTML code. This causes display errors in most email clients. We internally attempt to clean non-standard content.