I made a picture to use as a background. I tried using that picture with CSS but Outlook doesn't support that. So I just put the picture in body tag. Now I am able to display the picture but it is repeating.
I tried to stop repeating using CSS background repeat: no-repeat; but it isn't working. Whenever I try to use CSS on that background image, the image is not at all displaying in my email.
So I need a way to stop repetition of background image in HTML without using CSS.
Any help?
Email clients are notoriously bad at interpreting CSS or any standards for that matter. You can take a peek at this list: http://www.email-standards.org/clients/ to see what is and what isn't supported by the client you're targetting.
Keep in mind however that using images or extensive markup in e-mail messages will most likely (read: always) lead to headaches and - if possible - need to be avoided.
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I was wondering if there is an easy way to recreate the attached image using CSS3.
I've included this image as a page background but one of the senior devs told me there is an easy way to create this image background using CSS3.
I thought the background images can be done using CSS3 for repeatable patterns. But this image doesn't have any patterns that I could see.
Is that possible for this image?
I think this is interesting as experiment, but its not pragmatic.
You can convert an image to css here. PNGs work best.
Warning though, you will get tons of lines of HTML + CSS to create this image. It will come out pixel perfect though. I will also warn you that I tried uploading it to Jsfiddle, Jsbin and Codepen - all of them would just hang. Pen loaded and I couldn't save it since it's larger than 1MB.
This is what my text editor looks like with your image converted to CSS though.
This is just for reference. Yes, you can convert to CSS, but it doesn't mean that you should. I suppose it might be useful for things like email? But not for large images.
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I have issue with background-images working for email templates(i know background image won't work across all email templates consistently but my client want it to email with background images).
I want to add background image for for the mail template but no luck as of it as it is not supported in most of the clients.
I tried to ovelay text on image using negative margin-left and position absolute but no luck as margin-left is not supported in outlo0k,gmail and notes.
Any help/suggestions would be great
Thanks in advance
Yes, there are still some good solution for achieving background images.
In Outlook, which is one of the more difficult clients to work with this post from Campaign Monitor's blog should point you in the right direction. The is a technique that uses VML to get background images working well in Outlook 2007, 2011, 2013.
The other tip is add the !important declaration to your CSS for Gmail to recognize the background image.
You might also want to set background colors if you're using tables with old bgcolor attribute setting just in case your background images don't load. That way if you have say...gray text on a blue background it still looks okay.
Finally, set you background images up as inline CSS and use media queries so on the clients like the iPad that are easier to work with you get the results you want.
Is there a reliable way to overlay an image over another image in a table-based HTML email? Keep in mind that, in order to render correctly, styles need to be inline.
Apparently the only way to have a bg image that works in all email readers is by specifying one for both the HTML background attribute of the body tag (for Outlook 2007, 2010) and the HTML background attribute of an HTML table that occupies the entire page (for all other email readers). It doesn't appear to be possible to have a bg image anywhere else that will display in all email readers.
Generally speaking the answer is "no". You can't overlay foreground content on top of other foreground content, and the options for adding a bg image are almost non-existent. But if you can manage with a single large bg image for the body tag (and table wrapper), combined with one or more foreground images, then "yes".
See: http://blog.mailermailer.com/2011/04/background-images-in-html-email-the-naked-truth/
Edit:
After running some exhaustive tests in Litmus, the answer is a resounding "no". Outlook 2007 and later only supports 2 ways to display a bg image: using the HTML background attribute on the body tag, and using the inline background-image style on the body tag. But in both cases, Outlook scales the image differently than other email readers, and there's no way to prevent the bg image from tiling.
For all practical purposes, in cases where it's important to support a wide variety of email readers:
There's no way to overlay images (or any other type of content).
Bg images are not supported.
From what I can gather backround images are not supported through all browsers. However, you may find this page from Campaign Monitor useful. At least it is quick to test the code to see if it suits your readers needs - check your email stats against which clients work before implementing if I were you.
I believe the above advice regarding "the only way to have a bg image that works in all email readers is by specifying one for both the HTML background attribute of the body tag" is also correct although Campaign Monitor seems to indicate otherwise. I would be careful to work out which browsers/email clients use the fallback and as to whether that would negatively effect your design.
As Z Index is supported except in Gmail (so perhaps not all that well), you could try to use that to create a design. Given that Gmail doesn't support it and the fallback is likely to be ugly as sin, you probably don't want to try this.
I'm looking for a way to get a color gradient within a cell in a table. I found a couple examples examples online that involve CSS or Javascript, but trying to stay away from those.
For example, I found this:
<table style="filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Gradient(endColorstr='#C0CFE2', startColorstr='#FFFFFF', gradientType='0');">
The `Mircorosft" scares a bit for compatibility. This is for email marketing, so it needs to be as simple as possible because email clients are rather limitted in rendering html. Any suggestions?
Email clients are the worst in terms of rendering your HTML and CSS, so try to be as minimalistic as you can. The CSS gradients won't work in 90% of clients, so avoid it.
The best solution probably to put a solid background color (so it will be shown before the images are loaded, if loaded) and add a background image.
Check out CSS3 gradients. There are lots of generators on the web to try out, such as this one. http://gradients.glrzad.com/
In terms of browser compatibility, this table will show you the way:
http://caniuse.com/#feat=css-gradients
I would put background pictures. This will make sure email client will show it.
No, there is no universal solution that will work on email clients. Your best bet is to use a pregenerated background image but now days most clients block images by default
I creating a program which send newsletter with a background image. It works fine on Office 2000-2003, thunderbird, but the background image does not show on Outlook 2007. I read that Microsoft changed the rendering engine and did not support the background css property (it is possible but only applied to the Body).
Is it achievable to create an email which will render like that : http://www.freeimagehosting.net/image.php?a7905f7d16.png
on Outlook 2007 ?
What is the solution ?
Thank you for your help.
Shouldn't be too hard, as you're only needing one background image for the whole layout. Here is a blog post telling you how to get your background images working for the body.
Then just put the images and text inside a table and style it up with the correct width, and BAM, you're good to go (:
Not only has Outlook 2007 stopped the background image from showing in anything but the body element, apparently you have to be careful about how you set the styling of said background image as well. Perhaps this is your problem?
Campaign Monitor has a short post about it.
perhaps using a table and put a background on the table would work. either way, if you have styled it using css only, your in trouble and will most likely have to take a few steps back and do alot of the styling again.
fyi: www.fixoutlook.org
Outlook by default uses Trident, IE's engine for incoming mail, and Word HTML rendering engine for outgoing mail... Until Office 2007 (and some people hate it).
Now, it uses Word 2007's rendering, wich is rather lacking. On microsoft's page you can see that de body element doesn't support the style attribute. Because of this, you can't give a background to the body.
May be enclose everything in a styled div, instead of styling the body?