shirleyh
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I use the 4.01 Transitional for all my html emails. I think that's the preferred doc type correct?
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Oh well, I tried. Seemed like I was just missing something small.
Thanks everyone for the feedback.
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HTML5 is not allowed for this ad. Yes I want the entire background image clickable, hence the title of my posting.
It's all working except the error with the table in my <a>
However if I move it or change it, the link no longer works.
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at the top:
body { background-image: url("images/best.jpg"); background-position: 100; background-repeat: no-repeat;}
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It's actually not that image, it's the background image I'm trying to link. That other image isn't what I want clickable.
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The entire image.
It works the way I have it. But the validator gives me an error because the table tag is within the <a>
The link doesn't open if I move the <a>
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I have built an ad with a background image which is a clickable link. However to get the link to activate, I have it outside my table. When I go to validate my code, I get an error saying I can't place the <table> within the <a>
If I move the <a> into the table, the link no longer activates. No matter where I try putting it, it will not activate my link.
Can anyone help me solve this? Here is a sample of the structure I'm using
<!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>ad</title><style type="text/css">body { background-image: url("images/best.jpg"); background-position: 100; background-repeat: no-repeat;}</style></head><body> <a href="http://webiste link" target="_blank"><table class= "container" width="650" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left"> <tr> <td valign="top"><img src="images/image.png" width="200" height="54" style="margin: 20px 0 45px 20px;" alt="logo"><h1 style="font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 38px; color: #ffffff; text-align: left; line-height: 110%; font-weight:400; margin: 65px 300px 50px 20px;">Body copy here</h1></td></tr></table></a></body></html>
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Nice, like the colors and overall look. I was looking for an English version.
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Yes, I found it's actually called replacement character �. It's the curly, smart quote doing it, gotta be.
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Thanks. I've been combing through all sorts of answers. What seems the problem is and all our copy is written in Word. Default is usually set at smart quotes rather than straight quotes (which is what an apostrophe should be).
ASCII 39 and 34 are greek to me. I don't know what that means... straight vs smart quote (curly) right?
Is there a way to convert back to straight quotes easily? I tested bringing into plain text and it still kept the curly. Search and replace seems the best so long as I open in my Word and the setting is straight. We use a lot of (curly) quotes in text, I don't think these emails did, I suppose those need to go to straight as well.
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People use the single quote as an apostrophe. I get the copy from a copy writer, I don't provide the copy. But don't see any other option to type an apostrophe? Maybe this is why the apostrophe shows up so strangely (it's really a single quote?). I have actually seen a lot of job descriptions online where I see the same thing with the diamond shaped symbol with a question mark in it. I tried to attach an image, but it gets rejected.
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I recently coded my first email blasts, 7 total with different vendors doing the mailings and lists. When we tested, the apostrophes came up as diamonds with question marks in some of them (not all). This only happened when clicking the view web version.
I substituted them with ' which I found as code on the W3 site.
On a few of the emails, the ' actually showed up! Example: you'll
I am thinking the numeric code of &39; is what needs to be used?
Do I have to hunt down all apostrophes within text or is there something I'm doing wrong causing the icons to show up? Is it in something in the DOCTYPE that needs to stated or somewhere else?
Thanks very much, I'm very new to this.
activating a link from a background image
in HTML/XHTML
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Just as a follow up to my original posting, I sent the original version I had with the link as the entire background image and an alternate with only a button to open the link. The original was ok'd and used apparently with no problems.