How do I remove link underlining in my HTML email?

Answer 1

All email clients adjust the HTML and the CSS code you provide by their own rules:

e.g.: gmail removes everything but the inner HTML of the body tag.

1. for most other clients you can have a style-tag in your header

<style type="text/css">
    a {text-decoration: none !important;}
</style>

note: don't use CSS comments as YAHOO!Mail might cause trouble.

2. to be on the save side add the same code inline into the A tag as you did and an extra span tag as well (the style rules in a tags get often removed)

<a href="" style="text-decoration: none !important;">
    <span style="text-decoration: none !important;">
        text
    </span>
</a>

Answer 2

It wholly depends on the email client whether it wants to display the underline under the link or not. As of now, the styles in the body are only supported by:

• Outlook 2007/10/13 +
• Outlook 2000/03
• Apple iPhone/iPad
• Outlook.com
• Apple Mail 4
• Yahoo! Mail Beta

http://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/

Answer 3

You can do "redundant styling" and that should fix the issue. You use the same styling you have on the but add it to a that is within the .

Example:

<td width="110" align="center" valign="top" style="color:#000000;">
    <a href="https://example.com" target="_blank"
       style="color:#000000; text-decoration:none;"><span style="color:#000000; text-decoration:none;">BOOK NOW</span></a>
</td>

Answer 4

I think that if you put a span style after the <a> tag with text-decoration:none it will work in the majority of the browsers / email clients.

As in:

<a href="" style="text-decoration:underline">
    <span style="color:#0b92ce; text-decoration:none">BANANA</span>
</a>

Answer 5

I added both declarations on the a href which worked in outlook and gmail apps. outlook ignores the !important and gmail needs it. Web versions of email work with both/either.

text-decoration: none !important; text-decoration: none;

Answer 6

After half a day looking into this (and 2 years since this question was opened) I believe I have found a comprehensive answer to this.

<a href="#"><font color="#000000"><span style='text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>Link</span></font></a>

(You need the text-underline property on the span inside the link and the font tag to edit the colour)