Responsive HTML Email Template
A free, simple responsive HTML email template with a clear call-to-action button.
- Stars
- 13.7k
- Forks
- 4.3k
- Licence
- MIT
- Language
- HTML
- Last update
- 2.2 years ago
- Type
- Design asset
No commits in over a year — check for forks or alternatives before adopting.
What it is
This is a ready-made HTML email layout that adapts to phone and desktop screens and includes a prominent button for a main action. You copy the file and fill in your own text, images and links. It is meant for people who want a simple starting point rather than building email HTML from scratch.
- Send a password reset or welcome email with a single button
- Use email.html as the base for a marketing campaign in Mailchimp, which inlines the CSS for you
- Inline the CSS with an online inliner before sending through Mailgun, SendGrid or Postmark
Great for
- Developers sending transactional or product emails through an API service
- Marketers who want a basic template to paste into a campaign tool like Mailchimp
- Teams that need one clean call-to-action email quickly
Not ideal for
- People who need a complex, multi-section newsletter design, since the README describes this as a simple template
- Anyone expecting a visual editor; the template is an HTML file you edit by hand
How to get it
- 1
See the README
Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/leemunroe/responsive-html-email-template - 2
Run it
- Open email.html in a browser to see the live layout
- Edit the text, images and links in email.html
- If sending through an API service, paste the file into an CSS inliner and use the output
- Send a test email to yourself and check it in several email clients
- 3
Get the most out of it
- Use the inliner workflow described in the README before sending through an API service
- Give every image src, alt, width, height and border attributes to avoid breakage in some clients
- Use email-inlined.html as a reference for the inlined version
- Browse the README's linked resources on email design and transactional email
Downloads
Strengths
- Simple, focused layout with a clear call-to-action button
- Includes an already-inlined version (email-inlined.html) for API sending
- MIT licensed and free to use
Trade-offs
- README says email CSS support is inconsistent, so you must inline CSS and send test emails yourself
- Limited scope; it is a single basic layout rather than a full design system
- Last push was August 2024, so it may not reflect newer email client changes
How it compares
| Project | Stars | Type | Level | Updated | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| responsive-html-email-template (this) | 13.7k | Design asset | beginner | 2.2 years ago | Developers sending transactional or product emails through an API service |
| mjml | 18.3k | Dev tool | beginner | 14 days ago | Developers who build transactional or marketing emails by hand |
| tachyons | 11.7k | Library | beginner | 4 months ago | Developers who want to prototype or build a UI quickly with plain HTML or a component framework |
| bootstrap | 175k | Library | beginner | 4 days ago | Developers building responsive websites or web app interfaces quickly |
| tailwindcss | 98.3k | Library | intermediate | 4 days ago | Web developers who build their own interfaces and want to avoid writing large custom stylesheets |
| bulma | 50k | Library | beginner | 2 months ago | Developers who want a quick, consistent styling baseline for a web page |
Stats synced from GitHub. The assessment above was drafted with AI from the project's README on 2026-10-29 and may miss recent changes — check the README before relying on a command. MIT licence: free to use, modify and distribute, including commercially, as long as you keep the copyright notice.