I'm not really used to making html emails. Of course I have to start out making a responsive one in basically two versions of the same email. When I thought I had it done for most clients I realised that gmail app for both android and iOS gave the email a third look. I have read the gmail strips out the header section but even if I try to style it inline gmail app still makes the third look. Links to images in comment below shows how mobile should look and gmail app look. The trouble is where I have three columns that should turn into one moving the image to the left and header and text to the right (like mobile image). Gmail app shows the image, header and text on each their line. It should - at best - look like the mobile or at least look like the desktop version.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
Code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title></title>
<style type="text/css">
.ReadMsgBody {width: 100%; background-color: #ffffff;}
.ExternalClass {width: 100%; background-color: #ffffff;}
body {width: 100%; background-color: #ffffff; margin:0; padding:0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif}
table {border-collapse: collapse;}
table td { border-collapse: collapse; }
h2, p {margin: 0;}
h2 {padding-top: 15px;}
.img, .text {display: block;}
body .deviceWidth {width: 680px}
@media only screen and (max-width: 640px) {
body .deviceWidth {width: 440px!important; padding:0;}
body .center {text-align: center!important;}
table.triplet {width: 99% !important; padding-bottom: 20px !important;}
.noPadding {padding-left: 0!important;}
.img, .text {width: 50%;}
.text p {padding-right: 20px;}
h2 {padding-top: 0!important;}
}
@media only screen and (max-width: 479px) {
body .deviceWidth {width: 300px!important; padding:0;}
body .center {text-align: center!important;}
.img img {width: 140px;}
}
</style>
<!-- Targeting Windows Mobile -->
<!--[if IEMobile 7]>
<style type="text/css">
</style>
<![endif]-->
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" style="font-family: Georgia, Times, serif">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td width="100%" valign="top" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="padding-top: 20px;">
<table class="container deviceWidth" width="700" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#ffffff">
<tr>
<td style="padding: 0 10px 50px;" bgcolor="#ffffff" align="center" class="deviceWidth">
<img src="http://placehold.it/680x300" class="deviceWidth" border="0" alt="">
<h1 align="left">Header 1</h1>
<p align="left">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="deviceWidth" style="padding: 0;" width="700">
<table class="triplet" width="33%" align="left" style="background: #ffffff; border:1px solid #ffffff;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td style="padding: 0; padding-left: 10px; padding-bottom: 20px" class="noPadding"><p style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;"></p>
<!--[if IE]>
<table width="100%" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
<tr>
<td>
<![endif]-->
<table align="left" class="img" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><p style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;"><img src="http://placehold.it/210x210" border="0" alt=""></p></td>
</tr>
</table>
<!--[if IE]>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<![endif]-->
<table align="left" class="text" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td>
<h2>Offer 1</h2>
<p style="padding-bottom: 20px;">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<!--[if IE]>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<![endif]-->
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<table class="triplet" width="33%" align="left" style="background: #ffffff; border:1px solid #ffffff;" border="0" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td style="padding: 0; padding-left: 10px; padding-bottom: 20px" class="noPadding"><p style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;"></p>
<!--[if IE]>
<table width="100%" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
<tr>
<td>
<![endif]-->
<table align="left" class="img" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><p style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;"><img src="http://placehold.it/210x300" border="0" alt=""></p></td>
</tr>
</table>
<!--[if IE]>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<![endif]-->
<table align="left" class="text" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td>
<h2>Offer 2</h2>
<p style="padding-bottom: 20px;">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<!--[if IE]>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<![endif]-->
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<table class="triplet" width="33%" align="left" style="background: #ffffff; border:1px solid #ffffff;" border="0" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td style="padding: 0; padding-left: 10px; padding-bottom: 20px;" class="noPadding"><p style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;"></p>
<!--[if IE]>
<table width="100%" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
<tr>
<td>
<![endif]-->
<table align="left" class="img" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><p style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;"><img src="http://placehold.it/210x100" border="0" alt=""></p></td>
</tr>
</table>
<!--[if IE]>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<![endif]-->
<table align="left" class="text" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td>
<h2>Offer 3</h2>
<p style="padding-bottom: 20px;">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<!--[if IE]>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<![endif]-->
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
When you use align="left" on the tables, it is like floating left in CSS. This is what Gmail is doing, it is floating your text table, causing it to overflow (pop down) below your image table.
If you want your text within the tables to align, put it in the <td> within those tables instead.
Update:
For responsive in html email, try using the display:block; toggle technique:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><title></title>
<style type="text/css">
@media only screen and (max-width: 600px) { .switch { width:100%; display:block; } }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td class="switch" width="50%">
<img alt="" src="http://placehold.it/150x150" width="100%" style="margin: 0; border: 0; padding: 0; display: block;">
</td>
<td class="switch" width="50%" valign="top" style="padding:30px;">
Text here...
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body></html>
This will be ignored by Gmail as it strips the style tag, leaving the default non-responsive layout.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22614437/html-email-looking-different-in-gmail-app