How to create an email newsletter with CSS?

In this tutorial, we will learn how to create/design an email newsletter in HTML with the help of CSS? By Apurva Mathur Last updated : July 26, 2023

Email Newsletter

An Email newsletter is a marketing technique. As news word is involved in this which means this newsletter gets your subscribers updated about the content, and tips, in short regularly updating your subscribers. This marketing technique is really common now a days and is also considered as a great technique to connect with your subscribers via email. If any user subscribes to your newsletter then you as a business owner get connected with the user. It is one of the famous techniques to grow your business. It not only motivates the visitors visiting your website it also helps them to read your latest blogs. Email marketing yields a nearly 4000% return on investment, and email newsletters are a crucial contributor to that success. Email newsletters are an excellent channel for building long-lasting relationships with the audience.

Usually, an email newsletter is present in the contact us section or in the footer section. It mainly has two fields; name, email and a submit button.

HTML for Email Newsletter

The steps to design an HTML newsletter are as follows:

Use an HTML <form> tag like a container in which you have to add other HTML elements.
To display the newsletter titleuse a Heading tag (let it be <h2>). The newsletter title should be catchy to attract subscribers to fill out the newsletter form.
Now, write labels and input boxes to gather the information of the subscribers that you want.
Finally, add a button. Write code to store the entered information in the database (that's not a part of this tutorial).

CSS for Email Newsletter

The steps to apply CSS to an HTML newsletter are as follows:

CSS to style the HTML <form> element – You can define margin, padding, background-color, width, etc.
CSS to style the input text elements – You can style input text elements by applying the various CSS properties such as width, padding, margin, border, box-sizing, font-size, etc. to make it attractive.
CSS to style the input submit element i.e., submit button – You can apply the various CSS properties to make the button more stylish such as color, border, font-size, background-color, etc.

Example to create an email newsletter with CSS

In this example, we are creating an email newsletter using HTML and CSS.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <style>
    body {font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"}
    form {
    margin-top: 10%;
    padding: 20px;
    background-color:#22a6b3;
    width:50%;
    }
    input[type=text], input[type=submit] {
    width: 100%;
    padding: 5px;
    margin: 8px 0;
    border: 1px solid #ccc;
    box-sizing: border-box;
    font-size: 20px;
    }
    input[type=submit] {
    background-color:#d63031;
    color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
    font-size: 25px;
    font-weight: bolder;
    border: none;
    }
  </style>
  <body>
    <center>
      <form>
        <h2>Subscribe to our Newsletter</h2>
        <p>Subscribe to our Newsletter and get connected to US</p>
        <input type="text" placeholder="Name" name="name" required>
        <input type="text" placeholder="Email address" name="mail" required>
        <input type="submit" value="Subscribe">
      </form>
    </center>
  </body>
</html>

The output of the above code is:

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