Last updated October 31, 2010. Created by BioALIEN on August 6, 2008.
Edited by sgabe, jerdavis. Log in to edit this page.
The template preprocess function attempts to suck in all of the default theme's style-sheets. This "usually" looks fine, but often needs work.
The main issue is usually the fact that your theme's CSS files are designed to render the entire page. So your boiled-down HTML might look like:
<body>
<div id="content">
<?php print $content ?>
</div>
</body>And your CSS might look like this:
body {
background-color: black;
}
#content {
background-color: white;
}However, mimemail-message.tpl.php(), though it uses the same CSS, results in the following HTML:
<body id="mimemail-body">
<?php print $content ?>
</body>Thus, your background color is black (per the body element) but your message content is never rendered as white, because the message layout doesn't include your #content id.
You have 3 options:
- Add
#mimemail-bodyto your CSS with appropriate defaults such as:#content, #mimemail-body {
background-color: white;
} - Create a
mail.cssfile. Usually, you can copy your theme'sstyle.cssand begin making appropriate changes. In addition to changing the "offensive" declarations, you can also remove a lot of unused styles (such as sidebars) so that the overall message weight is much lower. - Customize
mimemail-message.tpl.phpand do whatever you want.
Comments
The post here
The post here http://drupal.org/node/713944 helped me get rid of the grey background that goes out with my emails. It should help with other issues too.