Edge case handling for the just-in-case (and Outlook) coder As you may know, there are always edge cases when it comes to email design. Blue links are no different. Some email clients will still automatically link the text. And since messaging apps change every 1-2 days, the above three customers could very easily introduce an update that breaks these fixes. For these extreme cases, you can take a different approach. This technique involves wrapping self-linking candidates with an element that is then targeted via CSS in the header of an email. The container element has a class applied for targeting. Before the designers found out they could use the x-apple-data-detectors hack, this trick was commonly used for Apple Mail blue links, so you'll usually see something like "appleLinks" used for the class, but that can be anything.
In our example, we will use the “blueLinks” class: It can be a very robust solution, but it requires more maintenance. Because the content of an email can change frequently, tracking the application of these classes and accounting for all suspicious text can be time-consuming and error-prone. This is why we generally recommend using the three built-in CSS solutions above, reverting to the class-based solution only when testing shows the need. Your fix E-Commerce Photo Editing Service for Outlook desktop clients Outlook mobile apps can be fixed with the Edge Case solution above, but this fix will not work with Outlook desktop clients. For Outlook desktop clients, URLs and email addresses will still appear as default colors if you don't wrap them in <a> tags. In most cases, you'll want these to link to the web page or email address that's being presented.
Therefore, adding the <a> tag with the href attribute and styling it as a link allows for a good subscriber experience. If you don't want it to look like a link, you can always add the <a> tag and style it to look like the rest of the copy. In extreme cases, you may have a client who needs the URL to look like normal copy and not be linked. In this case, the only way to achieve this is to add many zero-width joiners throughout the link: It's not the prettiest thing, but it works. However, this can cause friction with your subscribers if they try to copy and paste the URL. Sometimes the appear weird or interfere when pasted into different programs. For example, copying and pasting the URL when encoded as above into Firefox's address bar results in a Google search instead of directing you to Litmus