Nice information! Outlook.com and Workplace 365 Outlook (also called OWA) now helps CSS background photos. Till now, Microsoft’s webmail properties solely supported desk background picture attributes and never assist CSS background photos. This restriction compelled electronic mail designers to make use of desk background attributes as a way to show a background picture in Outlook.com.
Fortunately this assist is enabled in each the “basic” and beta Outlook webmail shoppers. This variation has been propagated to the Outlook iOS and Android apps as nicely. A lot due to Jóni de Sousa from Altaire who alerted me to this growth.
Advantages of CSS Background Pictures
A key advantage of CSS background photos over desk background attributes is the power to measurement and place the background picture. This enables the designer to measurement the background to the dimensions of the container or to make use of a a lot bigger “retina” picture because the background to offer the e-mail a way more polished look.
Background Picture Attribute on a Desk
<desk width="500"><tr><td background="bgimage.jpg">
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</td></tr></desk>CSS Background Picture
background-image:url('bgimage.jpg')Background Pictures Nonetheless Not Universally Supported
There are nonetheless a couple of shoppers that don’t assist CSS background photos (or any background photos) so relying in your viewers it’s possible you’ll want to preserve utilizing background picture attributes along with CSS background picture for electronic mail shoppers that assist it. Both manner, be sure you all the time outline an appropriate background shade as a fallback in case your picture is just not displayed.
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Supported Background Properties in Outlook.com
Outlook.com helps background photos in each shorthand and particular person properties.
background: url('bgimage.jpg') heart / cowl no-repeat #888888;
As a result of quirks in different shoppers corresponding to Yahoo! Mail with shorthand background kinds, its most likely greatest to make use of the person properties when utilizing background photos. The next background properties are supported in Outlook.com:
background-image
background-repeat
background-size
background-position
background-color
background-origin
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