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Campaign Monitor built a nifty tool that generates code for buttons in HTML email. It uses a cominbation os CSS and VML (for Microsoft Outlook) to display background images or patterns in most major email clients. <div><!--[if mso]> <v:roundrect xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft...

This technique relies on padding at the table cell level to structure the button, and both HTML attributes and CSS to style the button. No VML means simpler code, but no background images in Outlook. <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0...

This technique relies on adding thick borders to the link itself to build the button's CTA. Using borders is universally understood by email clients, but limit button appearance solid colors. <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&g...

This technique uses a combination of border-based and padding-based buttons, styling the link with both padding and at least a solid 1px border. The background color needs to be applied to the instead of the in this instance because Outlook does recognize horizontal padding on the tag (since it's...

This button derives from this example by Email on Acid. It is entirely code-based, so it will display without images downloaded, and the entire button is hoverable + clickable. Additionally, this example also includes spacers to help control how much vertical space appears before and after the butt...