Email BgImage
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- Fariska
According to this website: http://www.email-standards.org/ semmes that the most popular email clients and web clients have problems with the bg image support.
Since i've to design and build an email that relies strongly on BG images, i was thinking to work it around with tables (obviously) and absolute positioning.
Will it work? anyone has tried this approach?
Any other viable suggestions?Thanks in advance
- Timson0
are you using tables for any particullar reason?
- skt0
yes, use tables to place your images. bg images won't work.
and Timson, if you are about to start suggesting css then don't. it doesn't work.
- i do all html-newsletters strict html/css. never had any troubleTimson
- that works in ourlook express? hotmail? squirrel mail? etc etc...skt
- works in outlook and express, link for external view is providedTimson
- what about outlook 2007?
will eventually be the office standard, doesn't support bg images.Stugoo - bet some of the people viewing your emails have had troublesradar
- Fariska0
My client requires mainly a table layout for emails and
everyone (even here) always advised to use them on email.
If divs and divs' css attributes are solid enough, it's no problem using them.
Btw my main concern is the background-image property which is poorly supported.
- ian0
Yeah you're gonna have trouble with that. Try tables, slicing images and background colours. Email clients have basic html support so you have to keep it simple. And I hate to suggest it but maybe change to design to fit the technology?
- 4hero0
position: is not supported widely either
- Fariska0
Thanks, all. I was gathering all the information before starting the actual design. I'll see what i can do with the actual limitations.
- mikeim0
Yeah, avoid bg imgs. Mostly the free services don't like them, hotmail, yahoo and gmail. And the key is using inline css with tables.
- Nathan_Adams0
yeah, outlook 2007 destroys background images. background colours in nested tables are out too.
I tend to use a background image now only as a very subtle thing, so for people who can't view it, it's a minor step down to a solid colour background. Nothing wrong with your emails degrading to a minor degree depending on the email client.
- 7340
outlook 2007 which people are slowly but surely updating to, (like it or not.) renders email using WORD2007.
not IE
therefore it has trouble with most css2 and even basic positioning.
it doesn't allow for background images. it cant handle divs very well, and absolute positioning is out. everything has to be drawn in tables a la layout techniques circa 1999. theres nothing you can do unless you just want to exclude the population that will be using outlook2007.
- geralddean0
best reference for new "standard"
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us…
and a DW validator
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us…If you can code for this platform, your email won't break anywhere. We currently hate outlook2007 with a passion in my office. Also we strongly dislike coding for Lotus notes. the new Hotmail breaks email also. So be careful.