# Roadmap for styling email digest
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/roadmap-for-styling-email-digest/15150
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** activity-summary
**Created:** [April 29, 2014, 6:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/roadmap-for-styling-email-digest/15150 "2014-04-29T06:51:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@amitfrid](https://meta.discourse.org/u/amitfrid)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2014, 6:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/roadmap-for-styling-email-digest/15150/1 "2014-04-29T06:51:23Z")
Continuing the discussion from [Styling email digest](https://meta.discourse.org/t/styling-email-digest/13061):
Hey,
In a more general way, I would really appreciate any roadmap for email styling. Since html emails don’t support css there isn’t any option to style them.
My first priority is supporting RTL, as discussed here: [https://meta.discourse.org/t/css-customisation-for-rtl/10614/2](https://meta.discourse.org/t/css-customisation-for-rtl/10614/2)
As a lower priority I would like to be able to add arbitrary customisations, CSS and JS.
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@Sander78](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sander78)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2014, 7:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/roadmap-for-styling-email-digest/15150/2 "2014-04-29T07:58:29Z")
> [@amitfrid](#):
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> Since html emails don’t support css there isn’t any option to style them.
Oh, but there is. Inline. But you probably mean you need a way to implement that CSS into the mail.
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### Author:  [@amitfrid](https://meta.discourse.org/u/amitfrid)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2014, 8:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/roadmap-for-styling-email-digest/15150/3 "2014-04-29T08:01:08Z")
Yes, basically. Or, a way to customise it in a more conservative way, like with specific site setting.
As I said, I mostly interested in RTL support for emails.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2014, 2:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/roadmap-for-styling-email-digest/15150/4 "2014-04-30T02:37:35Z")
Are you a dev, do you want to experiment with this in a branch. There is plenty of tooling out there that “inlinifies” css which we could leverage.
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### Author:  [@amitfrid](https://meta.discourse.org/u/amitfrid)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2014, 2:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/roadmap-for-styling-email-digest/15150/5 "2014-04-30T02:55:04Z")
Yhea, I am.
Just with limited time and knowledge in Ruby…
I plan to start experiment with this in the next couple of days/weeks.
Do yo think that the list build [here](https://meta.discourse.org/t/css-customisation-for-rtl/10614/7) can be a baseline to start a discussion about it? (one of the items is email styling)
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2014, 2:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/roadmap-for-styling-email-digest/15150/6 "2014-04-30T02:58:18Z")
I think “applying CSS styling to Email” is a much narrower feature than full blown RTL support. I think you can just discuss here, before coding, outline your plan so we can make sure it looks sane.
At a top level I would simply add support for an “email.css” (containing default styling) that can be overridden. The tricky thing is taking the css file and applying it inline, but there are a few gems that do this which you could leverage.
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### Author:  [@amitfrid](https://meta.discourse.org/u/amitfrid)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2014, 3:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/roadmap-for-styling-email-digest/15150/7 "2014-04-30T03:48:46Z")
OK, sounds like a plan, thanks.
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### Author:  [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2014, 3:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/roadmap-for-styling-email-digest/15150/8 "2014-04-30T15:55:23Z")
I suppose for some folks it goes without saying, but be super careful when working on CSS for e-mail. Someone mentioned only inline CSS is supported, but technically that’s only true in Gmail’s web client; other clients have “better” support.
Different clients also vary widely on what CSS style elements they support.
Here are some good resources for someone not familiar with the dealing with e-mail styling:
1. [CSS Support Guide for Email Clients [+Checklist] | Campaign Monitor](http://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/)
2. [Blog - Litmus](https://litmus.com/blog/category/tips-resources)
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 11:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/roadmap-for-styling-email-digest/15150/9 "2025-12-04T11:14:22Z")