{"id":4995,"date":"2018-02-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litmus.com\/blog\/8-email-hacks-you-never-knew-existed\/"},"modified":"2023-07-12T17:13:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T21:13:43","slug":"8-email-hacks-you-never-knew-existed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litmus.com\/blog\/8-email-hacks-you-never-knew-existed","title":{"rendered":"8 Email Hacks You Never Knew Existed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Email hacks are a way of life for email developers. Whether it\u2019s hacking at code to ensure it renders perfectly on everything from Lotus Notes to Gmail or creating something new that\u2019s not been done before in email.<\/p>\n

At Litmus Live 2017, we asked the community to share their never-before-seen innovative email hacks\u2014from coding tricks to use in email to tools that can help you improve your day-to-day workflows.<\/p>\n

Today, we\u2019re making these sessions available to everyone. Read on for tricks and techniques you never thought were possible in email.<\/p>\n

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Build emails without tables
\nby Mark Robbins (@M_J_Robbins<\/a>)<\/span><\/h2>\n

Ask any email developer how to code an email and the answer will be the same\u2014use tables. However, the only email clients that truly require tables to structure HTML emails now are Outlook 2007-2016 and Windows 10 Mail, because they use Microsoft Word as their rendering engine. Watch and learn how Mark eschews tables in favor of divs to build an email.<\/p>\n