Template Language: Getting Started with MailChimp’s Template Language

Quick Links Template Language: Creating Editable Template Styles Template Language: Creating Editable Content Areas Template Language: Working With Variant Selectors Custom Template Showcase Getting Started with MailChimp's Template Language These guidelines are intended to serve as a foundation for best practices when creating custom email templates with MailChimp's email template…

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How do I create my own custom template?

Designers have the ability to import HTML that includes MailChimp's template language to create an editable template inside our app. This is a great feature for web designers who want to upload a template for a client, and create editable, repeatable and hideable sections within the content area (without letting…

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How do I import a template?

If you've coded your own template using MailChimp's template language, or if you've exported a template for editing and are ready to import it back to MailChimp, here's how to import it into MailChimp. Save your template as an HTML file on your computer. In your MailChimp account go to…

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Template Language: Creating Editable Content Areas

These guidelines are intended to serve as a foundation for best practices when creating editable content areas on custom email templates via MailChimp's email template language. It's a good idea to limit the number of editable spaces in the template to keep things simple. And you should name all editable…

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Template Language: Creating Editable Template Styles

Here's a quick guide to editable template styles in the MailChimp Template Language. Declaration Block To be added to CSS to define areas in a template where style is editable through the MailChimp email property inspector. @tab: (required) defines from which tab in the property inspector styles can be set.…

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Template Language: Custom Template Showcase

MailChimp's Template Language Showcase The templates in this showcase have been created using MailChimp's flexible template language

Template Language: Working With Variant Selectors

Variant Selectors let you switch between any number of different content structures (blocks of HTML) within your email. This template example has a left-image module and a right-image module that can be selected via the drop-down menu, then repeated and selected again. In this particular template, it allows you to…

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Can I export my templates?

Yes! You can export templates that you've designed using our tools as well as your custom coded templates that have been previously imported. From the Dashboard in your account, click the Templates button. Select My Templates to view your saved templates. Hover over the template thumbnail. A number of icons…

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If I have my own template designed, how can I make it editable via the WYSIWYG editor?

If you're creating your own custom template and want to be able to edit the template in our WYSIWYG content editor you would want to look over our standards for

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Template Language: override link colors in Yahoo! Mail with CSS.

You may have seen that your link colors are not consistent from your MailChimp account to emails received in Yahoo! Mail. Yahoo! Mail overrides noted link colors, but there is a fix for your custom templates that will override their CSS. All you have to do is make sure our…

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