| If you're a web developer that has ever had to put together an HTML formatted email you might have noticed it looked all wrong when you looked at it in Google's Gmail. This is because GMail strips out the <style> tags. You can use CSS styles but only inline in the HTML tag's style attributes. But, that sort of defeats the point of using CSS in the first place, you may as well use the horrible old <FONT> tag. The other webmail clients have similar issues (though not as bad as GMail). Here's a good resource showing the CSS support in the major webmail clients.
I wasn't happy having to deal with applying styles to each and every HTML element in the email I was generating, and couldn't find any solutions on the web. So perhaps other developers facing the same dilemma will be interested in my humble solution to the problem. A little PHP function that'll take some HTML, reads in a CSS file and inserts the style declarations into the HTML elements.
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