Booking table HTML, via automated email, doesn’t display properly in Gmail

  • The summary of the booking (sent by automated email, when a booking is made), is sent as a CSS table. Unfortunately, this doesn’t display correctly in Gmail.

    I have sent Google a bug report, as the HTML sent in the email validates correctly in W3C validator, and displays properly in other systems.

    However, although web designers are recommended to use CSS, instead of tables, for anything related to displaying, it is still recommended to use the HTML table element for displaying actual tabular data. I’m guessing that if you follow this recommendation, the HTML will display correctly in Gmail.

    It is true, that this isn’t your fault at all, it’s technically Gmail’s, and let’s hope they follow through on fixing my bug report, however I would still recommend using HTML tables for displaying tabular data, as it has a higher probability of displaying properly, as that is it’s intended purpose.

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