text-decoration:none; being ignored in Outlook 2007

Question

Is there a way to make text-decoration:none; work for links in a newsletter when viewed in Outlook 2007? I've tried inline styles in the head and body, applied directly to the anchor tags and a combination of all three. Outlook 2007 still shows underlines for all the links regardless. Any way around it? Thanks

Solution 1

This can be evaded like this:

<a href="#"><strong style="font-weight:normal">text here</strong></a>

put the text in a strong tag which is then reset to normal font weight.

Solution 2

Try to bind a <span> inside <a> tag.Use the following code snippet :

<a href="#" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="text-decoration:none;">Click Here</span></a>

Comments

[Luca]

a <b> tag is the correct semantic tag in this case, as you are not trying to deliver strong emphasis

[Pranay Srivastava]

Kindly use this : <a href="#" style="text-decoration:none;"><strong style="text-decoration:none;xfont-weight:normal;">Click Here</strong></a> It works 100%

[Alexander Dixon]

I am confirming in 2017 that this is the only viable solution that worked for Outlook. It utterly removes the underline from anchor links, which was the intended goal.

[Junaid]

Typo? Correction: <strong style="text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal;">Click Here</strong>

[Jishnu Ramesh]

Wow this is something. It actually works. Why i have no idea why. Only thing i got to work for windows mail app