Comments on: Outlook 2007, inline styles, and links

By: Ana

Ana — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:47:30 +0000

“vlink” attribute in the “body” tag works for MS Outlook 2007

By: check

check — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:06:13 +0000

Try this instead, don´t use “a:link”, etc, use instead “a.link” instead.

For example:

a.link, a.visited {
color:#000000;
text-decoration: none;
}

By: Ian Hoar

Ian Hoar — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:04:05 +0000

Hi JvD, I don’t think there is any way to solve this. Outlook 2007 does not use a browser and is mostly likely not keeping track of your clicks once you leave the email. The rendering engine is MS word.

By: JvD

JvD — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:20:23 +0000

After upgrading to office 2007 from 2003, people are having a minor problem with link colors. After clicking the link it turns purple the way it should, but when you go to another mail and back to the former the link is back to blue, as if it has not been clicked………

Is this also inline related? How to solve that?

By: murphyhg

murphyhg — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:57:20 +0000

The fix I found is to use the class in the outer element in my case that is a td cell.

By: murphyhg

murphyhg — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:44:03 +0000

I am using icontact and I am using your solution however it does not work in Outlook 2007. Here are my style decorations.

.first a:link, .first a:visited {
color:#FFFFFF;
text-decoration:none;
}
.second a:link, .second a:visited {
color:#6879a7;
text-decoration:none;
}
.third a:link, .third a:visited {
color:#000000;
text-decoration:none;
}

I am not using any other embedded styles only inline styles and I am declaring my my anchor color inline.

By: rahul

rahul — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:18:19 +0000

Hi,

I am not having this type of problem. But my problem is different……. when i forward the email the underline of the link turns to blue instead of the color i mentioned inline style.

By: Ian Hoar

Ian Hoar — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:58:30 +0000

Well, it’s a fairly minor bug, but make sure you are not overriding your style somewhere else. If you specify an “a” tag for example you might override your a:visited style.

By: laisunshine

laisunshine — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:35:17 +0000

I tried this and I still couldn’t get it to work. I am using iContact to send out my emails. All of my emails look great in every other email app except Outlook. I am so stumped.