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[WannaLearn]

Hi. I was wondering if this is doable in Outlook. We want to send an HTML email via Outlook, and we can do this just fine. The problem lies when we try to use this tag:

<a href=&quot;#test></a>

, also known as the "jump links". When this link is clicked it's supposed to take you further down the page where the anchor resides, but instead it opens a blank page in a new window. Just want to know if Outlook accepts this type of HTML emails. I know this works great in Hotmail, Yahoo, and Excite.
If this is not doable in Outlook, is there a work around?
Thanks.

 

[Marcs41]

<a href=&quot;#test&quot;>Jump Point</a>
...
...
<a name=&quot;test&quot;></a> Jumps to Here

Marc
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[WannaLearn]

Hi, thanks for replying. I tried that, but it doesn't work. The supposed anchor link open in a new window.

 

[WizyWyg]

It wont work like that in an EMAIL program like Outlook (Eudora). OUTlook is an EMAIL program that CAN render html, but it will not render out HTML like a normal webpage. Any links &quot;inside&quot; and HTML email will open a new Window, not scroll the message down.

Wizywyg's Advice on EMAIL:
1. Provide option to get text only emails for your receivers (i discard anything html encoded on the server level for my users so anything HTML is bit-bucketed or returned to sender. With so many security issues with HTML encoded emails - web bugs, tracking, viruses - it's jut not worth the headache to accept them.).

2. If you have to use HTML, keep it to only 3 kb and only 500 characters (with encoding). That means <b> counts as 3 characters. Or just provide a link to a document on your server to the HTML version of your &quot;message&quot;.