# CTA Formatting

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/cta-formatting/143604>\
**Category:** Tips, Tricks & Best Practices\
**Tags:** ctas\
**Created:** [December 2, 2025, 6:29pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/cta-formatting/143604 "2025-12-02T18:29:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![JWinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8491ac/32.png) [@JWinger](https://community.hubspot.com/u/JWinger)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 6:29pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/cta-formatting/143604/1 "2025-12-02T18:29:13Z")

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I saw a [related thread about CTA (Call to Action) hover colors](https://community.hubspot.com/t5/CMS-Development/Change-Text-on-Hover-in-HubSpot-Emails-with-Button-CTA/m-p/1108012) and I am experiencing the same issue. I’m also noticing that when I format the CTA buttons in HUbSpot, the corners, widths, etc. don’t appear in the email the same way they do in the CTA preview feature. Is this just a limitation of HubSpot? When I add the CTA to my email, I select CTA and it provides my list of available CTAs, so it seems odd that there isn’t a connection between the CTAs and the emails since they all live in HubSpot. I’m not looking for a complex coding solution, just trying to find out if it’s a user error or a HubSpot shortcoming.

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**Author:** ![stassey](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/stassey/32/36_2.png) [@stassey](https://community.hubspot.com/u/stassey)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 7:51pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/cta-formatting/143604/2 "2025-12-02T19:51:21Z")

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Hi @JWinger!

Thanks for posting this in the Community! Like seen in @Brownstephen101’s reply[here](https://community.hubspot.com/t5/CMS-Development/Change-Text-on-Hover-in-HubSpot-Emails-with-Button-CTA/m-p/1108207/highlight/true#M42149), he states " …changing text on hover isn’t possible in email clients since they don’t support hover effects or interactive CSS."  
With this in mind, we can confirm that this is not a supported feature. For now, we need to rely on the ‘button’ module, which will allow you to choose from existing CTAs; however, hover functionalities are not included.

 ![Screenshot%202025-12-02%20at%202.51.04%E2%80%AFPM.png](https://d2qpr2jzcazej7.cloudfront.net/original/3X/0/b/0b1945493bcbe5cb248a198dd444aa287db8ad49.png)

I hope this helps clarify!

Sam, Community Manager

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**Author:** ![JWinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8491ac/32.png) [@JWinger](https://community.hubspot.com/u/JWinger)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2025, 6:54pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/cta-formatting/143604/3 "2025-12-03T18:54:27Z")

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At least good to know it’s not user error.