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Styling and formatting an Email template
The contents of an Email section can be formatted directly, or styled with Cascading Style
Sheets (CSS). See "Styling and formatting" on page645.
Email clients do not read CSS files and some even remove a <style> tag when it is present in
the email's header. Nevertheless, CSS files can be used with the Email context in the
Designer. When generating output from the Email context, the Designer converts all CSS rules
that apply to the content of the email to inline style tags, as if local formatting was applied.
Tip
Before you can style an element, you have to select it. In an Email context it can be
difficult to select an element by clicking on it. Use the breadcrumbs at the top and the
Outline pane at the left, to select an element. See "Selecting an element" on page550.
In order for a style sheet to be applied to a specific section, it needs to be included in that
section. There are two ways to do this.
Drag & drop a style sheet
1. Click and hold the mouse button on the style sheet on the Resources pane.
2. Move the mouse cursor within the Resources pane to the section to which the style sheet
should be applied.
3. Release the mouse button.
Using the Includes dialog
1.
On the Resources pane, right-click the section, then click Includes.
2.
From the File types dropdown, select Stylesheets.
3. Choose which CSS files should be applied to this section. The available files are listed at
the left. Use the arrow buttons to move the files that should be included to the list at the
right.
4. You can also change the order in which the CSS files are read: click one of the included
CSS files and use the Up and Down buttons. Note that moving a style sheet up in the list
gives it less weight. In case of conflicting rules, style sheets read later will override
previous ones.
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