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AOL IE is showing some of our alt tag background

Chelsey S posted 2014-06-10 14:12:07

Hi there
We have started doing coloured background and styled alt text for when images are turned off...
However, we keep seeing that a tiny sliver of the background colour is peeking out at the right edge of our header image- only in AOL IE

Any ideas why it would be doing that?

Thanks in advance!

Jason Rodriguez replied 2014-06-18 16:07:19

Can you post the code?

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Chelsey S replied 2014-06-18 18:05:05

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>

<table align="center" border="0" width="580" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
                <tr>
                    <td bgcolor="#d40139" width="580"><a href="http://www.confidential.com/love" target="_blank"><img src="http://d2.ca/files/D2/Email_Images/client/cross/main.jpg" align="left" border="0" vspace="0" hspace="0" width="580" height="225" alt="STAY CONNECTED TO IT – LEARN MORE" /></a></td>
                </tr>

                <tr>
                    <td bgcolor="#000000"><img src="http://d2.ca/files/D2/Email_Images/client/cross/price-ON.gif" border="0" align="left" vspace="0" hspace="0" width="580" height="124" alt="price + $0 " /></td>
                </tr>

            </table>

</body>
</html>

Mark Robbins replied 2014-06-20 14:05:06

Hi Chelsey,
Put the background colour on the <img> tag rather than the <td> and it should fix it for you.

<td width="580">
    <a href="http://www.confidential.com/love" target="_blank">
        <img src="http://d2.ca/files/D2/Email_Images/client/cross/main.jpg" align="left" border="0" vspace="0" hspace="0" width="580" height="225" alt="STAY CONNECTED TO IT – LEARN MORE"  style="background-color:#d40139;"/>
    </a>
</td>

Cheers,
Mark

Chelsey S replied 2014-06-20 15:11:20

amazing thank you!

Chelsey S replied 2014-06-18 16:01:11

Just bumping this to see if anyone has any thoughts on this?

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