n. eā¢mogā¢riā¢fiā¢er [\Ä-'mƤ-grĘ-,fÄ«-Ęr] - a utility for changing completely the nature or appearance of HTML email,
esp. in a particularly fantastic or bizarre manner, (*3)
Emogrifier converts CSS styles into inline style attributes in your HTML code. This ensures proper display on email
and mobile device readers that lack stylesheet support., (*4)
This utility was developed as part of Intervals to deal with the problems posed by
certain email clients (namely Outlook 2007 and Google Gmail) when it comes to the way they handle styling contained
in HTML emails. As many web developers and designers already know, certain email clients are notorious for their
lack of CSS support. While attempts are being made to develop common
email standards, implementation is still a ways off., (*5)
The primary problem with uncooperative email clients is that most tend to only regard inline CSS, discarding all
<style> elements and links to stylesheets in <link> elements. Emogrifier solves this problem by converting CSS
styles into inline style attributes in your HTML code., (*6)
Emogrifier automagically transmogrifies your HTML by parsing your CSS and inserting your CSS definitions into tags
within your HTML based on your CSS selectors., (*7)
Usage
First, you provide Emogrifier with the HTML and CSS you would like to merge. This can happen directly during
instantiation:, (*8)
Run the following command for a local installation:, (*12)
php composer.phar require pelago/emogrifier:*
Or for a global installation, run the following command:, (*13)
composer require pelago/emogrifier:*
You can also add follow lines to your composer.json and run the composer update command:, (*14)
"require": {
"pelago/emogrifier": "*"
}
See https://getcomposer.org/ for more information and documentation., (*15)
Supported CSS selectors
Emogrifier currently support the following CSS selectors:, (*16)
ID
class
type
descendant
child
adjacent
attribute presence
attribute value
attribute only
The following selectors are implemented, but currently are broken:, (*17)
first-child (currently broken)
last-child (currently broken)
The following selectors are not implemented yet:, (*18)
universal
Caveats
Emogrifier requires the HTML and the CSS to be UTF-8. Encodings like ISO8859-1 or ISO8859-15 are not supported.
NEW: Emogrifier now preserves all valuable @media queries. Media queries can be very useful in
responsive email design. See media query support.
NEW: Emogrifier will grab existing inline style attributes and will grab <style> blocks from your HTML, but it
will not grab CSS files referenced in elements (the problem email clients are going to ignore these tags
anyway, so why leave them in your HTML?).
Even with styles inline, certain CSS properties are ignored by certain email clients. For more information,
review documentation here.
All CSS attributes that apply to a node will be applied, even if they are redundant. For example, if you define a
font attribute and a font-size attribute, both attributes will be applied to that node (in other words, the more
specific attribute will not be combined into the more general attribute).
There's a good chance you might encounter problems if your HTML is not well formed and valid (DOMDocument might
complain). If you get problems like this, consider running your HTML through Tidy
before you pass it to Emogrifier.
Finally, Emogrifier only supports CSS1 level selectors and a few CSS2 level selectors (but not all of them). It
does not support pseudo selectors (Emogrifier works by converting CSS selectors to XPath selectors, and pseudo
selectors cannot be converted accurately).
Maintainer
Emogrifier is maintained by the good people at Pelago, info AT pelagodesign DOT com., (*19)
Contributing
Those that wish to contribute bug fixes, new features, refactorings and clean-up to Emogrifier are more than welcome.
When you contribute, please take the following things into account:, (*20)
Please cover all changes with unit tests and make sure that your code does not break any existing tests.
Please use the same coding style as the rest of the code. Indentation is four spaces.
Please make your code clean, well-readable and easy to understand.
If you add new methods or fields, please use proper PHPDoc for the new methods/fields.
Git commits should have a <= 50 character summary, optionally followed by a blank line
and a more in depth description of 79 characters per line.