HTML email link color dilemma

Question

I designed an HTML email and I am having the following issues: First my entire design is based on a blue color so any blue text will not be readable by the reader/user, text

Answer 1

Figures. Just when we've gotten used to not being able to use the cool new email tricks because Outlook doesn't support them, Microsoft throws OWA at us, with a whole slew of new bugs.

We've gotten around its awful link styling by applying a display:inline-block to the link. This at least gets rid of the underline. I have no idea why.

We ran into another bug when trying to style our links the same color as the parent element. For some reason, making the parent element's color different fixed it. Changing it by one character up or down usually gives you a pretty close color.

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