Premailer
Pre-flight for HTML email.
What is this?
For the best HTML e-mail delivery results, CSS should be inline. This is a huge pain and a simple newsletter becomes un-managable very quickly. This script is our solution.
- CSS styles are converted to inline style attributes
Checks style and link[rel=stylesheet] tags and preserves existing inline attributes - Relative paths are converted to absolute paths
Checks links in href, src and CSS url('') - CSS properties are checked against e-mail client capabilities
Based on the Email Standards Project’s guides - A plain text version is created
A few things to note:
- Things can get messy very quickly with the * selector—be careful
- Only the screen, handheld and all media types are processed
Bookmarklet
If you’re using Firefox 3+, you can use a bookmarklet as a shortcut to processing pages.
To install, drag this link up to your toolbar: Premailer
Premailer API
A beta API for Premailer is now available. See the API documentation for details.
Under the hood
Premailer is written in Ruby, with a lot of help from Nokogiri, Hpricot and the Sinatra framework (goodbye eruby). The source is available on GitHub.
Written by Alex Dunae at Dialect. Copyright 2022.
Deployed by Hussnain Sheikh