How to change the colour of hyperlink on Outlook?

Fi 5 Reputation points
2025-10-23T13:43:10.9733333+00:00

Hiya,

I made a simple html for a signature. I added a link to one of the <td> tag and set the colour to red but somehow everytime I use the signature, the hyperlink colour turned blue?

Mac 15.6.1

Outlook Version 16.102.1 (25101829)

<body width="100%" style="margin: 0; padding: 0!important; text-align: left;">
    <table width="800" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" bgcolor="#ffffff" align="left">

 <tr>
	 <td style="color: #D72719; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 140%; ">
	<a href="http://google.com"  style = "color: #D72619">google.com</a>
	</td>
</tr>


</table>
</body>
Outlook | MacOS | New Outlook for Mac | For home
0 comments

1 answer

Sort by: Most helpful
Most helpful Newest Oldest
  1. Harold Milan 17,580 Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2025-10-23T14:29:43.7933333+00:00

    Hi Fi,

    Hi, thanks for sharing the details! I understand how frustrating it can be when you’ve set a specific color for your hyperlink in your HTML signature, but Outlook still shows it in blue. You’ve done the right thing by adding the style="color:#D72619" attribute, so it’s confusing when it doesn’t behave as expected.

    The reason this happens is that Outlook for Mac uses Word-based rendering for emails, and it applies its own default styles to hyperlinks. This means that even if you specify a color in your HTML, Outlook often overrides it with its standard blue link style. It’s a limitation of how Outlook handles email signatures rather than an issue with your HTML code.

    Alternatively, you can set the link to inherit the parent color:

     <td style="color:#D72719; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:140%;">

        <a href="http://google.com" style="color:inherit !important

    Let me know how it goes, Happy to help!

    Was this answer helpful?

Your answer

Answers can be marked as 'Accepted' by the question author and 'Recommended' by moderators, which helps users know the answer solved the author's problem.