Text align cells in table being created in HTML outlook mail item

**askpcguy** · 08-11-2014, 07:32 PM

Hi,

I've got the following code and have been trying to make the cells in column 1 align TOP LEFT but haven't been able to. I really appreciate the help!

    .HTMLBody = "<HTML><BODY><H2><I>"
    .HTMLBody = .HTMLBody & "<P Style=""font-family:Arial;font-size:18pt;color:red;"">FlashAlert"
    .HTMLBody = .HTMLBody & "<Span Style=""Color:RGB(31,73,125);""> - Important IT Service Bulletin</SPAN></H2></P>"
    .HTMLBody = .HTMLBody & "<Span Style='font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;Color:blue'>" & MyText & "</SPAN></I>"
    .HTMLBody = .HTMLBody & "<table style=""font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;"" border=""0""" & _
        "cellpadding=""1"" cellspacing=""8"">" & "<TDBODY>" & "<TR>" & _
        "<TD Style=""font-weight: bold; width: 250px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top;"">Incident Report Detail:</TD>" & _
        "<TD Style=""width: 300px""><a href=""" & oLinky & _
        TextBox1.Value & """>" & "<Span Style=""font-size: 12pt;"">" & TextBox1.Value & "</SPAN>" & "</a></TD>" & "</TR>" & _
        "<TR><TD><Span Style=""font-weight: bold;text-align: left;vertical-align: top;"">Status:</SPAN></TD>" & "<TD><B>" & ComboBox1.Text & "</B></TD>" & "</TR>" & _
        "<TR><TD><Span Style=""font-weight: bold;text-align: left;vertical-align: top;"">Date/Time Reported:</SPAN></TD>" & "<TD>" & TextBox2.Text & "</TD>" & "</TR>" & _
        "<TR><TD><Span Style=""font-weight: bold;text-align: left;vertical-align: top;"">Impact Summary:</SPAN></TD>" & "<TD>" & TextBox3.Text & "</TD>" & "</TR>" & _
        "<TR><TD><Span Style=""font-weight: bold;text-align: left;vertical-align: top;"">Locations Impacted:</SPAN></TD>" & "<TD>" & TextBox4.Text & "</TD>" & "</TR>" & _
        "<TR><TD><Span Style=""font-weight: bold;text-align: left;vertical-align: top;"">Incident Manager:</SPAN></TD>" & "<TD>" & TextBox5.Text & "</TD>" & "</TR>" & _
        "<TR><TD><Span Style=""font-weight: bold;text-align: left;vertical-align: top;"">Actions / Progress:</SPAN></TD>" & "<TD>" & TextBox6.Text & "</TD>" & "</TR>" & _
        "<TR><TD><Span Style=""font-weight: bold;text-align: left;vertical-align: top;"">Root Cause:</SPAN></TD>" & "<TD><B>" & TextBox7.Text & "</B></TD>" & "</TR>" & "</TABLE><BR><BR><I><Span Style='font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;Color:red'>" & MyFooter & "</I></BODY></HTML>"
    .Importance = 2

**ragulduy** · 08-12-2014, 06:27 AM

You would probably be better putting this in the outlook subforum (or even on a HTML forum) but for what it's worth that code appears to provide top left alignment when I try it. Although I have seen example of setting the style as part of the TD tag, for example:

<td style=""text-align:left;vertical-align:top;"">

**askpcguy** · 08-12-2014, 05:26 PM

Perfect, did away with span style for TD Style and things look great. Thank you ragulduy! Don't know if it matters but I put the text alignment code up front then the text formatting code.