Creating an HTML table for email transmission with Talend - how to do it?

Currently, I have a table that originates from a CSV file and has been converted to HTML using JavaRow in Talend before being sent via email. The code snippet used for this conversion is as follows:

componentcontext.MsgCode = "<br><br><style>table, td {  word-wrap: keep-all; border: 1px solid black;    border-collapse: collapse;}table, th { border: 1px solid black;}th, td {padding: 5px;},th {text-align: right;},th {background-color: #f2f2f2;},td{font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt;}</style> <table style=width:150px><tr> <th>column_A</th> <th>column_B</th> <th>column_C</th> <th>column_D</th>";
context.TableRow = "</td><td>"+input_row.column_A +"</td> <td>"+input_row.column_B +"</td> <td>"+input_row.column_C +"</td> <td>"+input_row.column_D+"</td> </tr>" + context.TableRow;
context.MsgCode = context.MsgCode + context.TableRow+ "</table>";

Although the current code successfully applies colors and structure to the table, there seems to be an issue with column sizes. The output obtained resembles the following image:
https://i.sstatic.net/9y7p0.png

I have attempted changing the width parameter to 100% in the style attribute, but it did not yield the desired result. Ideally, I want the table to appear like shown in the following image:
https://i.sstatic.net/Gzr1a.png

If anyone can provide guidance on how to achieve the correct column sizes in my table, I would greatly appreciate it.

Answer №1

At one of my previous jobs, we tackled this problem in the following manner (especially effective with Outlook, although compatibility with other tools may vary).

The approach involved encapsulating the entire content within a table structure like so:

<tr>
    <td width="660">
        <div style="width:100%; margin:0 auto; text-align: center;">
            <font color="#1E4191" style="font-size:30px;">
                <strong>Data Load Report</strong>
            </font>
        </div>
        <br><br>
 <table><tr bgcolor="#F3E2A9"><td bgcolor="#F3E2A9"><font color="#1E4191" >Hello</font></td>

and so forth.

</font></td></tr></table>
            <br>
            <font color="#1E4191" face="Arial">
            Kind Regards, <br>
            <strong>Talend Team</strong>
             </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table>

Unfortunately, each cell had to be individually formatted for font type and color which was quite tedious.

This method proved successful in Outlook specifically, where any table exceeding the 660px width limit would automatically break into multiple lines.

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