I understand gmail does not support background-images or background: url('.. in Gmail. I was wondering if anyone had a sizeable workaround to this?
This is for emails I send via a server to a user's email accounts if they are using gmail.
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Here's a nice cheatsheet I use for creating webbased emails. Support for background-images isn't widely supported, so I avoid it anyway.
Cheatsheet for CSS support in EMAIL clients
This file says that background is "buggy", so there might be some elements that do support background-images for gmail. For instance, you can try a table-cell with a background images. In my experience, for email-templates tables are the best option (I wish it was different)...
Justus Romijn
2010-10-21 14:42:51
So in conclusion, there really is no way to get background images in gmail..
Trip
2010-10-21 14:49:43
My point is, that you can test if a td-element can use a background image. If not, then I'm out of ideas...Some googling gave me this site: [website about background-images in email](http://mailchimp.blogs.com/blog/2006/01/background_imag.html)
Justus Romijn
2010-10-21 15:45:12