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/* Changing the layout to use less space for mobiles */
@media screen and (max-device-width: 480px), screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) {
    #email-body { min-width: 30em !important; }
    #email-page { padding: 8px !important; }
    #email-banner { padding: 8px 8px 0 8px !important; }
    #email-avatar { margin: 1px 8px 8px 0 !important; padding: 0 !important; }
    #email-fields { padding: 0 8px 8px 8px !important; }
    #email-gutter { width: 0 !important; }
}
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<table id="email-wrap" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color:#f0f0f0;color:#000000;width:100%;">
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        <td id="email-page" style="padding:16px !important;">
            <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color:#ffffff;border:1px solid #bbbbbb;color:#000000;width:100%;">
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    <td id="email-banner" style="padding:32px 32px 0 32px;">
        
                
        
        
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                        <div id="email-action" style="padding: 0 0 8px 0;font-size:12px;line-height:18px;">
                                    <a class="user-hover" rel="lviegas" id="email_lviegas" href="http://jira.qos.ch/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=lviegas" style="color:#326ca6;">L.Viegas</a>
     created <img src="http://jira.qos.ch/images/icons/issuetypes/bug.png" height="16" width="16" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="Bug"> <a style='color:#326ca6;text-decoration:none;' href='http://jira.qos.ch/browse/LOGBACK-1108'>LOGBACK-1108</a>
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                <a style='color:#326ca6;text-decoration:none;' href='http://jira.qos.ch/browse/LOGBACK-1108'><strong>Color syntaxing in Pattern not parsed correctly</strong></a>
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<tr valign="top">
    <td id="email-fields" style="padding:0 32px 32px 32px;">
        <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="padding:0;text-align:left;width:100%;" width="100%">
            <tr valign="top">
                <td id="email-gutter" style="width:64px;white-space:nowrap;"></td>
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                    <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
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                <img src="http://jira.qos.ch/images/icons/issuetypes/bug.png" height="16" width="16" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="Bug">        Bug
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        <strong style="font-weight:normal;color:#505050;">Affects Versions:</strong>
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                    1.1.3            </td>
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        <strong style="font-weight:normal;color:#505050;">Assignee:</strong>
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    <td style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial,FreeSans,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;padding:0 0 10px 0;width:100%;">
                                        <a class="user-hover" rel="logback-dev@qos.ch" id="email_logback-dev@qos.ch" href="http://jira.qos.ch/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=logback-dev%40qos.ch" style="color:#326ca6;">Logback dev list</a>
                </td>
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    <td style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial,FreeSans,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;padding:0 10px 10px 0;white-space:nowrap;">
        <strong style="font-weight:normal;color:#505050;">Components:</strong>
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    <td style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial,FreeSans,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;padding:0 0 10px 0;width:100%;">
                    logback-core            </td>
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    <td style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial,FreeSans,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;padding:0 10px 10px 0;white-space:nowrap;">
        <strong style="font-weight:normal;color:#505050;">Created:</strong>
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        27/Oct/15 8:12 AM
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        <strong style="font-weight:normal;color:#505050;">Description:</strong>
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        <p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>Using this onfiguration file:</p>

<div class="code panel" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeHeader panelHeader" style="border-bottom-width: 1px;"><b>logback.xml</b></div><div class="codeContent panelContent">
<pre class="code-xml">
<span class="code-tag"><configuration debug=<span class="code-quote">"true"</span> scan=<span class="code-quote">"true"</span> scanPeriod=<span class="code-quote">"5 seconds"</span>></span>
  <span class="code-tag"><appender name=<span class="code-quote">"CONSOLE"</span> class=<span class="code-quote">"ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender"</span>></span>
    <span class="code-tag"><encoder></span>
      <span class="code-tag"><pattern></span>%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} %boldBlue(%-5level) [%yellow(%thread)] %logger{36}\(%blue(%M):%blue(%L)\) - %green(%msg%n)<span class="code-tag"></pattern></span>
    <span class="code-tag"></encoder></span>
  <span class="code-tag"></appender></span>


  <span class="code-tag"><root level=<span class="code-quote">"INFO"</span>></span>
    <span class="code-tag"><appender-ref ref=<span class="code-quote">"CONSOLE"</span>/></span>
  <span class="code-tag"></root></span>
<span class="code-tag"></configuration></span>
</pre>
</div></div>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>The following exception is thrown:</p>

<div class="code panel" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent">
<pre class="code-java">
08:53:23,848 |-ERROR in ch.qos.logback.classic.PatternLayout(<span class="code-quote">"%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} %boldBlue(%-5level) [%yellow(%thread)] %logger{36} \(%blue(%M):%blue(%L)\) - %green(%msg%n)"</span>) - Failed to parse pattern <span class="code-quote">"%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} %boldBlue(%-5level) [%yellow(%thread)] %logger{36} \(%blue(%M):%blue(%L)\) - %green(%msg%n)"</span>. ch.qos.logback.core.spi.ScanException: Failed to initialize Parser
        at ch.qos.logback.core.spi.ScanException: Failed to initialize Parser
        at      at ch.qos.logback.core.pattern.parser.Parser.<init>(Parser.java:74)
        at      at ch.qos.logback.core.pattern.parser.Parser.<init>(Parser.java:66)
        at      at ch.qos.logback.core.pattern.PatternLayoutBase.start(PatternLayoutBase.java:81)
        at      at ch.qos.logback.classic.encoder.PatternLayoutEncoder.start(PatternLayoutEncoder.java:28)
        at      at ch.qos.logback.core.joran.action.NestedComplexPropertyIA.end(NestedComplexPropertyIA.java:167)
        at      at ch.qos.logback.core.joran.spi.Interpreter.callEndAction(Interpreter.java:317)
        at      at ch.qos.logback.core.joran.spi.Interpreter.endElement(Interpreter.java:196)
        at      at ch.qos.logback.core.joran.spi.Interpreter.endElement(Interpreter.java:182)
        at      at ch.qos.logback.core.joran.spi.EventPlayer.play(EventPlayer.java:62)
        at      at ch.qos.logback.core.joran.GenericConfigurator.doConfigure(GenericConfigurator.java:149)
        at      at ch.qos.logback.core.joran.GenericConfigurator.doConfigure(GenericConfigurator.java:135)
        at      at ch.qos.logback.core.joran.GenericConfigurator.doConfigure(GenericConfigurator.java:99)
        at      at ch.qos.logback.core.joran.GenericConfigurator.doConfigure(GenericConfigurator.java:49)
        at      at ch.qos.logback.classic.turbo.ReconfigureOnChangeFilter$ReconfiguringThread.performXMLConfiguration(ReconfigureOnChangeFilter.java:216)
        at      at ch.qos.logback.classic.turbo.ReconfigureOnChangeFilter$ReconfiguringThread.run(ReconfigureOnChangeFilter.java:194)
        at      at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
        at      at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
        at      at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
        at      at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
        at      at java.lang.<span class="code-object">Thread</span>.run(<span class="code-object">Thread</span>.java:745)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal <span class="code-object">char</span> ') at column 91. Only \\, \_, \%, \{, \}, \t, \n, \r combinations are allowed as escape characters.
        at      at ch.qos.logback.core.pattern.util.RegularEscapeUtil.escape(RegularEscapeUtil.java:46)
        at      at ch.qos.logback.core.pattern.parser.TokenStream.escape(TokenStream.java:217)
        at      at ch.qos.logback.core.pattern.parser.TokenStream.handleRightParenthesisState(TokenStream.java:133)
        at      at ch.qos.logback.core.pattern.parser.TokenStream.tokenize(TokenStream.java:97)
        at      at ch.qos.logback.core.pattern.parser.Parser.<init>(Parser.java:72)
        at      ... 19 common frames omitted
</pre>
</div></div>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>It seems to me that coloring cannot be performed within an escaped parenthesis block...</p>
    </td>
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        <strong style="font-weight:normal;color:#505050;">Environment:</strong>
    </td>
    <td style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial,FreeSans,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;padding:0 0 10px 0;width:100%;">
        <p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>Win7 64bits, JDK 1.8.0_u60</p>
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</tr>
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    <td style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial,FreeSans,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;padding:0 10px 10px 0;white-space:nowrap;">
        <strong style="font-weight:normal;color:#505050;">Project:</strong>
    </td>
    <td style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial,FreeSans,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;padding:0 0 10px 0;width:100%;">
        <a style="color:#326ca6;" href="http://jira.qos.ch/browse/LOGBACK">logback</a>
    </td>
</tr>                                                <tr valign="top">
    <td style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial,FreeSans,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;padding:0 10px 10px 0;white-space:nowrap;">
        <strong style="font-weight:normal;color:#505050;">Priority:</strong>
    </td>
    <td style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial,FreeSans,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;padding:0 0 10px 0;width:100%;">
                        <img src="http://jira.qos.ch/images/icons/priorities/major.png" height="16" width="16" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="Major">                Major
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    <td style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial,FreeSans,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;padding:0 10px 10px 0;white-space:nowrap;">
        <strong style="font-weight:normal;color:#505050;">Reporter:</strong>
    </td>
    <td style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial,FreeSans,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;padding:0 0 10px 0;width:100%;">
                                        <a class="user-hover" rel="lviegas" id="email_lviegas" href="http://jira.qos.ch/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=lviegas" style="color:#326ca6;">L.Viegas</a>
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