In the early morning hours of September 30th, Gmail started rolling out changes to support what the email world has been clamoring for for so long: embedded styles and responsive design. What are we talking about?
Gmail has not historically supported classes or id’s in the <head> of an email, which forced email designers to use inline CSS to style their emails. Now, Gmail will support embedded CSS with classes and id’s, which removes the need for inline CSS in Gmail. This also means Gmail will finally support media queries—and responsive email.
Just catching up on the news? Follow along our updates in the Live Ticker as we monitor the roll-out, or read a summary of all expected changes and what they mean for email marketers below.
The Gmail Update Live Ticker
September 30, 8:00am EDT
Changes were rolled out to the Gmail App on Android as well. Classes and id’s are being picked up in the head of the email. We also see media query support for some Android Gmail App accounts, but support is not consistent across all accounts we’ve tested. Support might be rolling out gradually across regions.
Updates are now also rolling out to Inbox by Gmail, with support
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