Hi Joy,
Gmail mobile is picky about CSS - try running the CSS through a CSS Validator.
This has saved me a few times - if not, it's hard to tell without seeing the code. :)
Interesting, how well do you find this works? And although it is whitespace it still counts as characters so how much does this push up email size? :)
Loving the different methods being shared though!
Fortunately, I don't really use MailChimp! I was just seeing if any other people had decided to do anything about it as 512 characters is a lot for clients to pull through!
Interesting in the different responses coming through though! :)
Code? Screenshots?
Do you have any code to share?
Hi Elaine! Yeah that hack is good - My only problem with it is the amount of characters required to make up for pre-header when it doesn't get to the full 512 characters, can push the email size up a few kb, other than that as you said: Works like a charm!
FYI - this isn't asking ways around the problem just a discussion to see what people think of this way of pulling preview text!
Started a new discussion: Gmail, Yahoo, AOL preview text