We're sending out marketing emails through Pardot and we've encountered a problem where the main table that houses the content is showing up as 640px even though there are several explicit inline and CSS codes setting it to 600px. This is a problem because we set our images to 600px and the extra width creates a visual imbalance. We've tried expanding everything out to 640px as a workaround but we'd love a more robust solution. This also is a relatively new issue.
Under Chrome developer tools, the "Computed" tab reports a width of 640px, but when you expand it to see the computed code, it only reports the original 600px callout.
I've tried editing the code in Chrome, and there's something that's prohibiting it from displaying less than 640px. It'll go wider but not skinnier.
Pardot's email previewer doesn't show this problem, and their rendering tests that predict the email's appearance in different clients all show 600px width. But in all my testing every browser and email client shows the 640px issue once we send an actual test.
I can't find anything in the code to my knowledge that is causing this. Any ideas? Here's a link to view the problem code: http://go.pardot.com/webmail/230162/23104123/8b59c2b28e0bfe75832f8b05f1cffe75db30d7e629d62bb911837a69fb41b773
And here's a link to view the "good" code: http://bfoneill.com/pardottest/
Any help is greatly appreciated. We're not handcuffed, but these go out to a good amount of people and if we could get them looking sharp that'd be ideal.
Try this: Add
width:100%
to theimg
tag under the title "Video of the Week".