Email campaign - inline css - a:link, a:hover

What do people do about setting the color of the a:link and a:hover when setting up a page for email distribution using inline css?
From what I've read you can't declare inline styles for the above mentioned styles?
Is it ok to put those in css <style></style> tags in the head section of the page and just let those email clients that can deal with it do so and forget those that can't, or is there a better alternative?
Cheers
Os

pziecina wrote:
Hi Os
Don't know if this is related to your post regarding xara, but if the other person was using xara for emails then yes it is easier doing emails in xara than dreamweaver, (for the none html/css literate).
Sort of, I'm just doing some experimenting before I commit myself. Don't won't to look like a dumb *** if I say I can and then I can't, lol.
As to your question most emails use the default but I can see no problem in placing the alternative in a css style sheet.
This article may be helpful, (check the external links at the end also) - http://groundwire.org/support/articles/css-and-email-newsletters.
Ok, that's what I thought. I'll use inline css styling for pretty much everything I can to be on the safe side and just put css that can't be inserted inline in an embedded style sheet. I guess its no big deal if a few email client don't like it.
I'll have  a read of the link you provided. Thanks for your respnse

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