Hotmail backgrounds and text

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Hotmail backgrounds and text

Valo

12:00 am on Nov 13, 2005 (gmt 0)

Hey,
im having problems writing an html newsletter. i have made my newsletter in dreamweaver and it works a treat in thunderbird and outlook....but hotmail, the background stays white and the links in the hotmail menu turn the color i want my email links to be. i know that that hotmail only reads whats in the <body> and i have tried all different combinations of putting the css in the body and in the head, but have had no luck. can someone please tell me the code to change the background to black, the text to grey and the links to dark red in hotmail thats compatable with other email apps. i would really appreciate it.

Thank you

encyclo

1:09 am on Nov 13, 2005 (gmt 0)

Welcome to the forums Valo!

Hotmail strips out the entire head section of the email, so any styles defined there. You can try applying the styles to a container

div

enclosing the entire content fron

<body>

</body>

You might want to check out post no. 7 by Don_Hoagie from the following thread in our forum library:

The Challenges of HTML Email - Proper coding for HTML Email Newsletter [webmasterworld.com]