Embed images in html emails - using Outlook

SparrowHawk

Hi,

Not sure if this is the correct forum, but here goes...

I'm creating a html email, which I would be sending using Outlook - most of the receivers will also be using Outlook.

I'm aware of the security issues with receiving emails with images. One way around this is to have the images on a web server, which will then be embedded in the email before sending.

This all works well - except for one tag - <td background-image>. I can't get the image to render when received in Outlook - sometimes it appears & sometimes it doesn't, it's completely random.

I have tried CSS, inline style and pulling my hair out, but no joy.

I've tried Google, & come across people with similiar problems, but no solutions

If anyone has any suggestions, I'd appreciate it!

CuLT

Moved from Digital Art / Design.

seamus

I've found Outlook's HTML support to be flakey at best. Sometimes external stylesheets work, sometimes they don't. Sometimes embedded stylesheets work, sometimes they only partially work, sometimes they don't work.

I've found using HTML attributes instead of CSS to work best, even though it's not ideal. Try using <table background="http://link.to/mypicture.jpg"&gt; and see how you get on.

Mr E

Also try something like:

<TD style="background-image:url(http://link.to/mypicture.jpg)"&gt;