Email Not Displaying Correctly in Gmail: Fix CSS Grid Broken Columns for ActiveCampaign for Financial Services & Banking
Financial emails carry high-compliance requirements. Layout collapses, overlapping text, or accessibility failures can lead to compliance audits and client confusion. Below is the targeted integration guide to fix CSS Grid Broken Columns inside Gmail App (iOS & Android) templates when using ActiveCampaign.
Technical Breakdown
Gmail App (iOS & Android) uses the WebKit / Blink which lacks support for standard rendering rules. This causes CSS Grid Broken Columns elements to break or collapse when rendering templates.
ActiveCampaign Behaviors
ActiveCampaign's editor parses HTML template imports and automatically cleans inline attributes, which can break VML tags. Always use absolute styles and avoid relying on classes. Enforce strict WCAG color contrast standards across your statement tables and summary grids to ensure legibility and regulatory compliance.
Remediation Code Block
Always compile grid layouts using standard percentage-width or pixel-width nested tables aligned with the align='left' attribute. This acts as a responsive grid block that floats and adapts naturally to any viewport size. In your ActiveCampaign campaign manager, make sure you configure your links to run via %UNSUBSCRIBELINK%.
<table role="presentation" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td width="48%" align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;">Col 1</td>
<td width="4%"></td>
<td width="48%" align="left" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:10px;">Col 2</td>
</tr>
</table>Live Code Sandbox Test
How to Deploy inside ActiveCampaign
Copy the fixed VML or table wrapper code block from the remediation box above.
Insert an 'HTML block' from the layout builder panels. Avoid standard text boxes, as the ActiveCampaign parser might strip conditional MSO comment strings on saving.