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Use when building, editing, or debugging HTML email templates with Maizzle 6 and Tailwind CSS. Triggers on Maizzle 6 projects, email template work, HTML email component usage, email CSS inlining, and email-client compatibility questions.

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Maizzle

Build and send HTML emails that work in all major email clients, with Vue components and Tailwind CSS.

Install

Scaffold a project (interactive when [starter] and [directory] are omitted):

npx maizzle new [user/repo] [directory]

Add to an existing project:

npm i @maizzle/framework

// package.json
{ "scripts": { "dev": "maizzle serve", "build": "maizzle build" } }

The dev server generates .maizzle/ (typed .d.ts for auto-imported components and composables). Include it in tsconfig.json. Works with npm, yarn, pnpm, bun.

Basic template

<script setup>
defineConfig({
  name: { type: String, default: 'friend' },
})
</script>

<template>
  <Layout>
    <Container class="max-w-xl">
      <Section>
        <Heading level="1" class="text-2xl font-semibold mb-4">
          Welcome, {{ name }}!
        </Heading>
        <Text class="text-gray-700 mb-6">
          Build HTML emails with Vue and Tailwind.
        </Text>
        <Button class="bg-blue-600 text-white px-4 py-2 rounded" href="https://maizzle.com">
          Learn more
        </Button>
      </Section>
    </Container>
  </Layout>
</template>

Components

All built-in components auto-import. Full props/usage in references/COMPONENTS.md; multi-column layout patterns in references/PATTERNS.md.

Document scaffolding — <Layout>, <Html>, <Head>, <Body>, <Tailwind>, <Font>, <Preheader>

Layout primitives — <Container>, <Section>, <Row>, <Column>

Content — <Heading>, <Text>, <Link>, <Button>, <Img>, <Hr>, <Spacer>, <Markdown>, <CodeBlock>, <CodeInline>, <QrCode>

Conditionals & escape hatches — <Outlook>, <NotOutlook>, <OutlookBg>, <Plaintext>, <NotPlaintext>, <Raw>, <NoWidows>, <WithUrl>

AMP4Email — <amp-*> tags pass through verbatim (native, no component resolution). <style amp-custom> is preserved like <style embed> — use @reference "@maizzle/tailwindcss" (not @import) for @apply inside.

Authoring rules

Surgical edits: change only what was asked. Keep existing structure, components, and class lists intact unless explicitly requested.

Reach for built-in components over raw HTML unless explicitly asked for — they encode email-client quirks. Style with Tailwind utilities; arbitrary values are fine. Don't add box-border or align="left" on <Button> (left is the default), or border-solid border-* on <Hr> (use bg-* for color).

Don't add a leading-* that restates a text-* size's built-in line-height — text-* sizes ship a paired line-height; add leading-* only to deviate (pairs in references/STYLING.md).

Don't add mso-style to repeat padding/bg for Outlook — <Container>, <Section>, <Column> auto-hoist background-color/padding* from your classes onto the MSO <td>. Reserve mso-style for Outlook-only overrides. (Skipped if the element has a horizontal border, or on <Column> with a percentage width.)

What survives across email clients:

  • Outlook desktop on Windows uses Word as renderer — no border-radius, background-image, modern CSS, or media queries. Maizzle's components include MSO ghost tables / VML where needed.
  • Gmail clips emails > ~102 KB. Keep templates lean; minify for production. <QrCode> can be heavy.
  • Layout: no flex/grid in older clients. Use <Row> / <Column>.
  • Responsive: sm: (≤600px), xs: (≤430px) — supported in many clients as progressive enhancement.
  • Dark mode: dark: via prefers-color-scheme. Patchy support; treat as enhancement.
  • Images: PNG/JPEG/GIF in production; <Img dark-src motion-src> for variants. Always set alt and width.
  • Spacing: prefer <Spacer> between block elements (Outlook ignores some margins). Margins are fine on text.
  • Avoid: position: absolute/relative, embedded SVG (Gmail), inline <style> blocks for layout.

For brand color/logo gathering, depth styling guidance, dark mode, and footer patterns, see references/STYLING.md.

Static assets & URLs

Place static files in public/. Reference them via absolute paths (/logo.png). The build copies public/ to the output dir.

Production rewriting (relative → absolute) happens via url.base in config or scoped via <WithUrl>:

// maizzle.config.ts
export default defineConfig({
  url: { base: 'https://cdn.example.com/emails/' },
})

<WithUrl base="https://cdn.example.com/emails/">
  <Img src="/logo.png" alt="Logo" width="120" />
</WithUrl>

Both skip absolute URLs, data URIs, protocol-relative, and fragments. UTM/query params: url.query globally or <WithUrl parameters="utm_source=..."> scoped.

Styling overview

Maizzle uses Tailwind CSS 4 via @maizzle/tailwindcss — email-safe resets, MSO utilities, client variants. <Layout> already imports it. For manual control:

<Head>
  <style>@import "@maizzle/tailwindcss";</style>
</Head>

Defaults: css.inline, css.purge, css.shorthand, css.safe, css.preferUnitless, css.sixHex, html.decodeEntities are all on. html.minify is off.

Client variants: gmail:, gmail-android:, apple-mail:, ios:, outlook-mac:, outlook-android:, yahoo:, thunderbird:, superhuman:, notion:, spark:, …

Full CSS / HTML / pipeline knobs: references/CONFIGURATION.md and references/TRANSFORMERS.md.

Programmatic render

import { render } from '@maizzle/framework'

const { html, plaintext } = await render('emails/welcome.vue', {
  config: { css: { inline: true, purge: true }, plaintext: true },
})

Accepts an SFC path, raw SFC string, or imported Vue component. Runs SSR + full transformer pipeline.

Plaintext

Enable globally:

export default defineConfig({ plaintext: true })

Or per-template via usePlaintext() in <script setup>. Customize destination/extension/strip-HTML opts by passing an object. See references/COMPOSABLES.md.

CLI

npx maizzle … or install globally with npm i -g maizzle. Full command/flag reference: references/CLI.md.

References

  • references/COMPONENTS.md — every component, props, examples.
  • references/PATTERNS.md — column / responsive layout patterns.
  • references/STYLING.md — Tailwind, color tokens, brand brief, authoring principles.
  • references/CONFIGURATION.md — every config key, defaults, examples.
  • references/COMPOSABLES.md — defineConfig, useConfig, useTransformers, useBaseUrl, useUrlQuery, useEvent, useDoctype, usePlaintext, usePreheader, useHead.
  • references/TRANSFORMERS.md — pipeline order, per-stage behavior.
  • references/CLI.md — every CLI command, flags, and usage.
  • references/CONVERT-REACT-EMAIL.md — porting guide from React Email.
  • references/CONVERT-MAIZZLE-V5.md — upgrade guide from Maizzle 5 to Maizzle 6.