Table margin top / bottom only (without CSS)

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I am working on a Newsletter and am therefore pretty much forced to use tables.

According to this source, "margin-top" and "margin-bottom" is not supported by Outlook 2007/10/13. Since Outlook is a requirement for my Newsletter, I need a workaround.

Obviously there's "cellspacing", I however do sometimes want to apply margin-top/bottom without left/right. How can this be achieved?

If you don't want to use CSS, you may have to add blank rows on the to and bottom with a dummy image — Arun, Jul 01 '13 at 10:36

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 01 '13 at 10:36

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If you needed pixel perfect height I would pad an empty cell with a spacer (clear 1px x 1px gif).

answered Jul 01 '13 at 10:36

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won't this approach break if image blocking is turned on? – morrow Jul 01 '13 at 11:00
Its really the only viable alternative. If images are turned off it might look a bit odd, the other alternative is to use breaking spaces in the empty rows but then (without CSS) you wont have full control of the height of the element. – Eth Jul 03 '13 at 09:40

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 05 '13 at 07:51

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In the end I was able to solve this problem to my satisfaction by adding empty rows (without images) with a fixed height. This actually seems to be working fine with quite a lot email clients.

answered Jul 05 '13 at 07:51

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Table margin top / bottom only (without CSS)

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