I have a coded email template with a alternating small/large (image/text) column table cell layout.
{% if widget_data.section_1.value == 'True' %}
<!-- Begin ROW 1 Wrapper -->
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" id="contentTableOuter" style="{{email_body_border_css}}; background-color:#f9f9f9">
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="top">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="contentTableInner">
<div class="body-container-wrapper">
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="top" class="bodyContent" width="100%" colspan="12">
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" class="templateColumnWrapper">
<tr>
<td valign="top" colspan="5" width="41.66666666666667%" class=" column" style="width:41.66666666666667%; text-align: left; padding: 0; font-family: {{ primary_font }}; font-size: {{ primary_font_size }}; line-height: 1.5em; color: {{ primary_font_color }}; ">
<div class="widget-span widget-type-linked_image " style="text-align:center" data-widget-type="linked_image">
<div class="layout-widget-wrapper">
{% linked_image "feature_image_1" overrideable=true, ending_html='', starting_html='', src='//static.hubspot.com/final/img/content/email-template-images/placeholder_200x200.png', label='Feature Image 1'%}
</div>
<!--end layout-widget-wrapper -->
</div>
<!--end widget-span -->
</td>
<td valign="middle" colspan="7" width="58.333333333333336%" class=" column" style="width:58.333333333333336%; text-align: left; padding: 0; font-family: {{ primary_font }}; font-size: {{ primary_font_size }}; line-height: 1.5em; color: {{ primary_font_color }}; ">
<div class="widget-span widget-type-rich_text " data-widget-type="rich_text">
<div class="layout-widget-wrapper">
{% widget_block rich_text "feature_text_1" overrideable=True, label="Feature Text 1" %}
{% widget_attribute "html" %}
<h2>Something Powerful</h2>
<p>The headline and subheader tells us what you're
<a href="#">offering</a>, and the form header closes the deal. Over here you can explain why your offer is so great it's worth filling out a form for.
</p>
{% end_widget_attribute %}
{% end_widget_block %}
</div>
<!--end layout-widget-wrapper -->
</div>
<!--end widget-span -->
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</div>
<!--end body wrapper -->
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- End ROW 1 Wrapper -->
{% endif %}
{% if widget_data.section_2.value == 'True' %}
<!-- Begin ROW 2 Wrapper -->
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" id="contentTableOuter" style="{{email_body_border_css}}">
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="top">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="contentTableInner">
<div class="body-container-wrapper">
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="top" class="bodyContent" width="100%" colspan="12">
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" class="templateColumnWrapper">
<tr>
<td valign="middle" colspan="7" width="58.333333333333336%" class=" column" style="width:58.333333333333336%; text-align: left; padding: 0; font-family: {{ primary_font }}; font-size: {{ primary_font_size }}; line-height: 1.5em; color: {{ primary_font_color }}; ">
<div class="widget-span widget-type-rich_text " data-widget-type="rich_text">
<div class="layout-widget-wrapper">
{% widget_block rich_text "feature_row_2" overrideable=True, label="Feature Text 2" %}
{% widget_attribute "html" %}
<h2>Something Powerful</h2>
<p>The headline and subheader tells us what you're
<a href="#">offering</a>, and the form header closes the deal. Over here you can explain why your offer is so great it's worth filling out a form for.
</p>
{% end_widget_attribute %}
{% end_widget_block %}
</div>
<!--end layout-widget-wrapper -->
</div>
<!--end widget-span -->
</td>
<td valign="top" colspan="5" width="41.66666666666667%" class=" column" style="width:41.66666666666667%; text-align: left; padding: 0; font-family: {{ primary_font }}; font-size: {{ primary_font_size }}; line-height: 1.5em; color: {{ primary_font_color }}; ">
<div class="widget-span widget-type-linked_image " style="text-align:center" data-widget-type="linked_image">
<div class="layout-widget-wrapper">
{% linked_image "feature_image_2" overrideable=true, ending_html='', starting_html='', src='//static.hubspot.com/final/img/content/email-template-images/placeholder_200x200.png', label='Feature Image 2'%}
</div>
<!--end layout-widget-wrapper -->
</div>
<!--end widget-span -->
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</div>
<!--end body wrapper -->
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- End ROW 2 Wrapper -->
{% endif %}
It looks great on desktop email clients, however on mobile the layout breaks.
Is there a way I can set the default layout for all rows so the image is on the left and the text is on the right, but if I set a boolean switch the layout of the image and text elements changes for alternate rows on desktop views.
I can't think of an elegant solution that doesn't cause issues with live emails using the template or give content creators issue when building out a email from the template
I had to fight with these same alternating image/text sections in an email template just last week.
I had the same result. They looked great on desktop, but on mobile they would stack causing the order to be like image - text - text - image - image - text - text - image - which, needless to say, didn't work.
I found a few solutions that involved media queries but of all of the popular email clients, gmail for android doesn't support media queries! As with most things in life popularity dictates necessity. If media queries don't work in the most popular clients then media queries do not work.
My solution was finally to just leave the sections in row and alternating. I made the image widths a percentage, like 60%, so they would adjust width without media queries, and I believe I gave the text td's a width of like 70% and the image td's 30% so that the text had room to breath on smaller devices.
I had to fight with these same alternating image/text sections in an email template just last week.
I had the same result. They looked great on desktop, but on mobile they would stack causing the order to be like image - text - text - image - image - text - text - image - which, needless to say, didn't work.
I found a few solutions that involved media queries but of all of the popular email clients, gmail for android doesn't support media queries! As with most things in life popularity dictates necessity. If media queries don't work in the most popular clients then media queries do not work.
My solution was finally to just leave the sections in row and alternating. I made the image widths a percentage, like 60%, so they would adjust width without media queries, and I believe I gave the text td's a width of like 70% and the image td's 30% so that the text had room to breath on smaller devices.
