Newsletter layout crashes with Gmail

Question

I've actually created a template on Mailchimp. I used a basic template of Mailchimp and transformed it into the design they gave me. I used the the CSS inline tool of Mailchimp to insert all the code in an inline mode as Gmail does not accept any style on the header. I only have this issue on Gmail, the rest work perfectly. What can I do?

As the code is long I inserted it in a fiddle if you wish to check it out:

http://jsfiddle.net/z27Bw/

I need an answer as its a mystery for me!

Answer 1

you can try this

Write first tr code like this

<tr>
<td colspan="2" height="281"> </td>
</tr>

instead of

<tr>
<td width="35" height="281"> </td>
<td class="headerContent"> </td>
</tr

>

and then put that big header image inside it.

Answer 2

You have 2 unclosed <td> tags in the HTML -- one on line 476, one on 482. That might be what's causing the issue in Gmail. If that doesn't fix it, I'd say yeah, it might be a colspan issue.