css - problems with negative margin in mail template

Question

I'm creating a html mail template, I used a ribbon so I need to a move it a little bit past border. you can see the code here: http://jsfiddle.net/GEqk7/

To do this first i used position: relative; and I gave the ribbons a negative position but the thing is that position is not well supported by gmail and yahoo and ... . So I decided to use negative margin but it looks like gmail and yahoo don't support that either.

is there a way or a fallback to to do this?

Solution 1

Most of the Email clients dont support negative margin. You will have to take that ribbon image as a background.

Solution 2

As of Jan. 2015, gmail's web client ignores negative margin.

Solution 3

Apparently, as of Jan. 2022, Gmail's web client still ignores negative margin

Comments

[usernolongerregistered]

You should really classify your elements and use CSS to organize your formatting. That fiddle is scary. (Very fitting for Halloween)

[neo]

@Agony sorry :D mail agents just support inline css so I had to make it look like this, Happy Halloween by the way :D