Outlook 2013 rendering issue: nested table truncating adjacent text

Answer 1

I am not sure what is the problem with Outlook 2013, but you can try to achieve same layout with div structure

HTML:

<div class="outer">
  <div class="first">text in the table cell.<br>and another line of text.<br>and a third line.</div>
  <div class="second">Hello. This is sample text. This is another sentence. Hello. This is sample text. This is another sentence. Hello. This is sample text. This is another sentence.</div>
</div>

CSS:

.outer {
  width : 50%;
  height : 50%;
  background-color: green;
}

.first {
  background-color: red;
  float : left;
}

.second {
  background-color: yellow;
}

Demo Link

Answer 2

Try to set a align left on the heading table, in my code this will work in all clients. Tested in litmus for all clients:

<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="560" align="left" border="0">
<tbody>
    <tr>
        <td align="left">   
            <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left">
                <tbody>
                    <tr>
                        <!-- spacer for the top of the image -->
                        <td align="left" colspan="2">
                            <img src="spacer.gif" height="5" alt="spacer" style="display:block; margin:0px; border:0px;" align="left" />
                        </td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <!-- the image or text -->
                        <td align="left">
                            <img src="imagesrc" alt="imagealt" style="display:block; margin:0px; border:0px;" />
                        </td>

                        <!-- spacer for the right of the image -->
                        <td align="left">
                            <img src="spacer.gif" width="11" alt="spacer" style="display:block; margin:0px; border:0px;" />
                        </td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>

                        <!-- spacer for the bottom of the image -->
                        <td colspan="2" align="left">
                            <img src="spacer.gif" height="11" alt="spacer" style="display:block; margin:0px; border:0px;" />
                        </td>
                    </tr>
                </tbody>
            </table>

            <!-- here your tekst -->
            <div style="margin:0px; padding:0px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; color:#000000; font-family:Verdana, Arial; font-size:12px; line-height:20px; display:block;">Hello. This is sample text. This is another sentence. Hello. This is sample text.</div>
        </td>
    </tr>
</tbody>
</table>

Answer 3

Sometimes the accepted solution (adding align= "left" to heading/parent tables) does not work (with multiple nested tables in my case):

Adding mso-table-rspace to the left aligned table did work:

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="left" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt; mso-table-rspace:7pt;">