detail and this is definitely getting bookmarked (or should that be favourited!) Many thanks for this great article, really helped me in my new job! I have found that with Outlook Express (OE) sometimes getting vertical padding / margins to work can be tricky, a method i have been using that seems to work in any email client, as well as OE, is: Where 10px is the height of the gap you want to create. This may be blindingly obvious but its something i am now using a lot and it doesnt seem to fail even in older version of OE so thought id share. Thanks for that Jon, to explain why to newbies margin and padding settings applied to a paragraph are often overlooked in OE. Jon is suggesting we add another paragraph below where you want to add the extra vertical space. The paragraph has no padding or margin settings but instead has just the font size (whatever you want), activating the font size is a 'space' or   which is the correct method to add a non breaking space. Not sure it needed clarification but ive done it anyway No problem at all, its a tricky business and this article covers most of it well! Ive returned to update what i wrote above, with further testing i have realised that Hotmail doesnt render this correctly. For some unknown reason they strip out all margin related inline css and inflict their own across your beautiful (cough) email. Seeing as