HTML email link color dilemma

Question

I designed an HTML email and I am having the following issues: First my entire design is based on a blue color so any blue text will not be readable by the reader/user, text

Answer 1

Its a known bug with Outlook that if an anchor tag does not contain a valid URL, then the styling of said tag will be ignored.

The tendancy to add !important will also work against you in this case because Outlook will completely ignore any tags suffixed with !important.

Put a URL on your anchor tag, or wrap the text in a span tag inside of the anchor and put your styling there.