Nprinting - HTML style application tips and tricks?

[robodeveloper]

Hi

I'm embedding a table into an email using Qlik Nprinting designer (Feb 2018).   However the table has no styling elements applied and attempting HTML is proving to be slow.

I'm wondering what HTML scripting hacks developers use to generate script and quickly make an aesthetically pleasing table i.e. online tools, script libraries etc?

Thanks!

PS:  have I posted this in the best place to generate discussion?

[JustinDallas]

Are you embedding an HTML table into an HTML style email?  If so, you might want to heavily manage your expectations.  Current email systems don't process email html like a browser does, and what they do accept is all over the place.

You can use this to test your email:

https://www.google.com/webmasters/markup-tester/

I've been down this road before and it didn't end well, mostly because it was hard for me to create the selectors needed to alternate row colors using CSS and HTML that the email clients would process.

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[robodeveloper]

‌Thanks Justin.   Yes a table object in a html email with a bit of styling applied.     From your post I gather it is possible but laborious.    I could just embed an image of the table from the app as a quick option.   

If you need an email with an embedded table now, what's your approach?

[JustinDallas]

Right now, I just tell folks that it can't really be done.  Of course, I might be wrong.  Between the decreased HTML/CSS support with email clients, and the way NPrinting generates tables, it's not very time effective for me to try to get any styling in there.