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box-sizing in Apple Mail iOS

Works box-sizing works in Apple Mail iOS.

Works in 16 of 21 · not supported in 5

Which clients
Works
Gmail, Gmail Android, Gmail iOS, Outlook 365, Outlook (New), Outlook iOS, Outlook Android, Outlook for Mac, Apple Mail, Apple Mail iOS, Samsung Mail, Thunderbird, HEY Mail, Proton Mail, Fastmail, Superhuman
Not supported
Outlook Classic, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Mail Android, Yahoo Mail iOS, AOL Mail

The fix for the clients that need it

Needed in 5 of 21: Outlook Classic, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Mail Android and 2 more.

Account for padding in width manually (no box-sizing)

instead
<div style="width: 300px;">
  <div style="padding: 20px;">
    Content; padding on inner element
  </div>
</div>
Show the original
before
<div style="width: 300px; padding: 20px;
            box-sizing: border-box;">
  Content; total width stays 300px
</div>

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What Apple Mail iOS does with box-sizing

The Emailens probe for box-sizing on a real install counted as Apple Mail iOS, captured 14 Oct 2026. It shows the probe, not the fix. Where box-sizing is supported it shows: both bars the same width.

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Every feature in Apple Mail iOS · box-sizing in every client

Questions

How many email clients support box-sizing?
It works in 16 of 21, not supported in 5.
Does box-sizing work in Apple Mail?
box-sizing works in Apple Mail. Closest to Apple Mail iOS: Apple Mail, which agrees on 284 of the 298 features both are tested on.

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Real captures 14 Oct 2026 on 11 installs · caniemail (MIT) via @emailens/engine 0.18.22 · tested upstream 28 Feb 2019 · data last changed 10 Nov 2026 · Outlook (New) cells are the engine's mapping