Comments on: Anchor links in Gmail and email newsletters

By: Visual Adrenalin

Visual Adrenalin — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:27:17 +0000

Thanks, this worked beautifully in Outlook 2010.

By: Ian Hoar

Ian Hoar — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 21:36:02 +0000

Thanks, fixed.

By: meh

meh — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 21:21:22 +0000

You have a typo:

” It may be your last change before”

It should be last ‘chance’. Just thought I’d let you know.

By: Mike E. Perez

Mike E. Perez — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:38:01 +0000

Unfortunately, I just tried adding the span tags to my anchor links, and Outlook still insists on opening the link in a new browser window. (I’m using Outlook 07)

I share your opinion of anchor links, however, I believe the client really wants them.

By: Ian Hoar

Ian Hoar — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 03:26:17 +0000

Hi Roselo, span tags should work, but with Outlook it always depends on what you are trying to do with them, when I used them in links they worked fine. Someone has mentioned however that using them in links will break them in AOL Webmail, I have not verified this for myself though.

By: Roselo

Roselo — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:43:01 +0000

Hi Ian just want to ask you that in outlook mail does the span tags will
work?

By: Ian Hoar

Ian Hoar — Fri, 14 May 2010 03:30:35 +0000

That does sound like a nasty bug. I can’t honestly say I test for AOL, although I may give it a shot just to see if I can find a work around. Clients I usually test for are Outlook 2002 and up, Hotmail, Yahoo and Gmail. AOL has a pretty small user base, combine that with the percentage of people that will actually click on your anchor link and you have a very small amount of people. That said, I still recommend avoiding anchor links in emails all together for this reason and the ones stated above.

Here’s some email client usage stats.

http://fingerprintapp.com/email-client-stats

By: Me

Me — Thu, 13 May 2010 21:33:05 +0000

This fix DOES work in Gmail, but the downside is it breaks the links in AOL Webmail. It causes AOL to open a new window and just opens the mail interface to the home page. Which i think is worse than just not responding and allowing you to scroll down manually.

If you can figure out how to make it work in both Gmail and AOL Webmail without breaking a third client… then that’d be something.