Spacing between row in newsletter html table in Hotmail and Gmail

Question

I try to create an newsletter.

The display is perfect on web browser, perfect in thunderbird too... but in webmails like Gmail or Hotmail... I have spaces between the rows.

Here is my code :

<center><a href="http://www.itbag.fr/newsletter/03022012/" style="color:#E84691;font-size:10px;">Si la newsletter s'affiche mal, consultez la en ligne</a>
<table id="Table_01" width="731" height="731" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
    <td colspan="3" align="left" valign="top">
        <a href="http://www.itbag.fr" style="display:block;height:131px">
            <img src="http://www.itbag.fr/newsletter/03022012/images/image001_01.jpg" width="640" height="131" border="0" alt=""></a></td>
    <td align="left" valign="top">
        <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Itbag.fr?sk=app_128552947241828" style="display:block;height:131px">
            <img src="http://www.itbag.fr/newsletter/03022012/images/image001_02.jpg" width="90" height="131" border="0" alt=""></a></td>
    <td align="left" valign="top">
        <img src="http://www.itbag.fr/newsletter/03022012/images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="131" alt=""></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top">
        <a href="http://www.itbag.fr" style="display:block;height:74px">
            <img src="http://www.itbag.fr/newsletter/03022012/images/image001_03.jpg" width="365" height="74" border="0" alt=""></a></td>
    <td colspan="2" rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top">
        <a href="http://www.itbag.fr/sacs-d-occasion-de-marques/1130-sac_24h_gerard_darel_en_python_neuf.html" style="display:block;height:286px">
            <img src="http://www.itbag.fr/newsletter/03022012/images/image001_04.jpg" width="365" height="286" border="0" alt=""></a></td>
    <td align="left" valign="top">
        <img src="http://www.itbag.fr/newsletter/03022012/images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="74" alt=""></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top">
        <a href="http://www.itbag.fr/sac-d-occasion-de-luxe/1114-cabas_burberry_beige.html" style="display:block;height:258px">
            <img src="http://www.itbag.fr/newsletter/03022012/images/image001_05.jpg" width="187" height="258" border="0" alt=""></a></td>
    <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top">
        <a href="http://www.itbag.fr/accessoires-co/1128-expresso.html" style="display:block;height:258px">
            <img src="http://www.itbag.fr/newsletter/03022012/images/image001_06.jpg" width="178" height="258" border="0" alt=""></a></td>
    <td align="left" valign="top">
        <img src="http://www.itbag.fr/newsletter/03022012/images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="212" alt=""></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td colspan="2" rowspan="3" align="left" valign="top">
        <a href="http://www.itbag.fr/accessoires-co/1107-ballerines_heritage.html" style="display:block;height:313px">
            <img src="http://www.itbag.fr/newsletter/03022012/images/image001_07.jpg" width="365" height="313" border="0" alt=""></a></td>
    <td align="left" valign="top">
        <img src="http://www.itbag.fr/newsletter/03022012/images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="46" alt=""></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td align="left" valign="top">
        <a href="http://www.itbag.fr/sac-d-occasion-de-luxe/1118-peekaboo.html" style="display:block;height:227px">
            <img src="http://www.itbag.fr/newsletter/03022012/images/image001_08.jpg" width="187" height="227" border="0" alt=""></a></td>
    <td align="left" valign="top">
        <a href="http://www.itbag.fr/sac-d-occasion-de-luxe/1120-muse_two_large.html" style="display:block;height:227px">
            <img src="http://www.itbag.fr/newsletter/03022012/images/image001_09.jpg" width="178" height="227" border="0" alt=""></a></td>
    <td align="left" valign="top">
        <img src="http://www.itbag.fr/newsletter/03022012/images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="227" alt=""></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top">
        <a href="http://www.itbag.fr/mon-compte" style="display:block;height:40px">
            <img src="http://www.itbag.fr/newsletter/03022012/images/image001_10.jpg" width="365" height="40" border="0" alt=""></a></td>
    <td align="left" valign="top">
        <img src="http://www.itbag.fr/newsletter/03022012/images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="40" alt=""></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td align="left" valign="top">
        <img src="http://www.itbag.fr/newsletter/03022012/images/spacer.gif" width="187" height="1" alt=""></td>
    <td align="left" valign="top">
        <img src="http://www.itbag.fr/newsletter/03022012/images/spacer.gif" width="178" height="1" alt=""></td>
    <td align="left" valign="top">
        <img src="http://www.itbag.fr/newsletter/03022012/images/spacer.gif" width="275" height="1" alt=""></td>
    <td align="left" valign="top">
        <img src="http://www.itbag.fr/newsletter/03022012/images/spacer.gif" width="90" height="1" alt=""></td>
    <td></td>
</tr>
</table></center> 

Here is the direct link : http://www.itbag.fr/newsletter/03022012

And here, there is two screenshots of display in Gmail and Hotmail :

Anyone can help me ?

Solution 1

I guess there is no really answer for this webmail...

I see in this source : http://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/ that all webmails and readers understand "float"...

So in the future, à try with float column.

Solution 2

Add style="display: block" as mentioned bellow

<img style="display: block" src="sample.gif" alt="sample" />

and also add

img { display: block }

Refer to the original post.

Solution 3

I solved a similar problem with

<td style="line-height:0"><img ... /></td>

Found on this Q&A, I am not allowed to notify potential duplicate yet.

Comments

[surfbird0713]

this solved my problem too. i always use display:block but had one random email that wouldn't work with it. line height fixed it. thank you.

[haui]

This is the solution - the webmail software adds additional white-space to the HTML source code of the mail. This additional white-space causes the gap "between" table cells. The gap is not between the cells. But the added white space make cells grow.