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position in HEY Mail

Partial position is partly supported in HEY Mail.

Supports relative and sticky but not absolute and fixed.

Works in 2 of 21 · partial in 14 · not supported in 5

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

Your reader in HEY Mail may not see position the way you wrote it, even if it looks right where you tested it.

What to do instead in HEY Mail

Use table-based positioning instead of CSS position

instead
<table role="presentation" width="100%" cellpadding="0"
  cellspacing="0" border="0">
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">Content</td>
    <td width="80" valign="top" align="right">Badge</td>
  </tr>
</table>
Show the original
before
<div style="position: relative;">
  <div style="position: absolute; top: 0; right: 0;">
    Badge
  </div>
  <p>Content</p>
</div>

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What HEY Mail does with position

caniemail record, tested upstream 16 May 2021

  • Partial. Supports relative and sticky but not absolute and fixed.

Your next question

Every feature in HEY Mail · position in every client

Questions

How many email clients support position?
It works in 2 of 21, partial in 14, not supported in 5.
What do I use instead of position in HEY Mail?
Use table-based positioning instead of CSS position.
Does position work in Fastmail?
position is partly supported in Fastmail. Closest to HEY Mail: Fastmail, which agrees on 173 of the 235 features both are tested on.

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caniemail (MIT) via @emailens/engine 0.18.22 · tested upstream 16 May 2021 · data last changed 10 Nov 2026 · Outlook (New) cells are the engine's mapping