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The borders of the element are then drawn on top of them, and the background-color is drawn beneath them. How the images are drawn relative to the box and its borders is defined by the background-clip and background-origin CSS properties.
Browsers do not provide any special information on background images to assistive technology. This is important primarily for screen readers, as a screen reader will not announce its presence and therefore convey nothing to its users. If the image contains information critical to understanding the page's overall purpose, it is better to describe it semantically in the document.
Unfortunately, these background images and buttons can not be placed on top of other background images, because Outlook doesn't support nested VML elements. In many cases though, you may be able to code the design up successfully by changing the structure.
For instance, if only part of the image needs to be behind text content, you can sometimes slice the image, use a bulletproof background image for only that part of the design, and use bulletproof buttons or inline images (held together by a table structure) for other parts.
This technique can only add repeating background images to your emails. But depending on your design, you may be able to solve this by using a fixed pixel height, width, or both. Or in some cases, adding more space around the image file itself might help.
Full email width backgrounds in Outlook are based on the mso-width-percent property, since percentage based values don't work with the regular width property. Unfortunately there are a few Outlook 2007/2010/2013 bugs that affect this technique.
Outlook forces a minimum body margin on all HTML emails. And if you set a VML element to "mso-width-percent: 1000" (100% width), it bases the rendered width on the full email/viewport width, while still adding 10px margins on each side. So if you center content inside full width background image tables, it can offset that content 10px to the right, and also cause horizontal scrolling.
Unlike most other email clients and browsers, Outlook 2007/2010/2013 uses the DPI of your background image to determine the scale. So to make sure it renders at the right size, set the image's resolution to 96 DPI.
You can place a table inside the background image cell, around your content, and add table rows and columns with height and width equal to the spacing you'd like to add. In some cases, a better option can be to slice the image, and only use a background image for the table cell that will have the content. The surrounding cells can have the rest of the design as inline image tags, text or plain background colors, depending on the design.
To center the content horizontally, you can replace the tag with . Right aligning the content can be done with , but this can result in some unwanted spacing. Another option is to place a one-cell table inside the background image cell, give this cell the same width as the background image, and add .
Unfortunately, background images have to be hard coded into your template or campaign for now. You can however use a tag with multiple s to make different pre-defined background images available in the editor.
This question was asked before but the solution is not applicable in my case. I want to make sure certain background images are printed because they are integral to the page. (They are not images directly in the page because there are several of them being used as CSS sprites.)
You have very little control over a browser's printing methods. At most you can SUGGEST, but if the browser's print settings have "don't print background images", there's nothing you can do without rewriting your page to turn the background images into floating "foreground" images that happen to be behind other content.
Use psuedo-elements. While many browsers will ignore background images, psuedo-elements with their content set to an image are technically NOT background images. You can then position the background image roughly where the image should have gone (though it's not as easy or precise as the original image).
proposes an elegant solution, using a custom bullet in place of a background image. In this example, the aim is to apply a background image to an a element with class logo. (You should substitute these for the identifier of the element you wish to style.)
Is it possible to have two background images? For instance, I'd like to have one image repeat across the top (repeat-x), and another repeat across the entire page (repeat), where the one across the entire page is behind the one which repeats across the top.
Current version of FF and IE and some other browsers support multiple background images in a single CSS2 declaration. Look here -background-images-with-css2/ and here _backgrounds.html and here -backgrounds-and-borders-with-css2/
Yes, it is possible, and has been implemented by popular usability testing website Silverback. If you look through the source code you can see that the background is made up of several images, placed on top of each other.
You could have a div for the top with one background and another for the main page, and seperate the page content between them or put the content in a floating div on another z-level. The way you are doing it may work but I doubt it will work across every browser you encounter.
The following demonstrates one way to use the CSS background-image property to display an image behind the content of the current passage. This CSS should placed within your project's Story Stylesheet area.
Background images are images that are applied to the background of, or behind, an element. Instead of being a main focal point of the email, like a hero image, they are more often subtle and complementary to the other content in the campaign.
The major benefit of using background images is they allow you to place additional HTML content on top of them. Unlike other images, where only the image itself can exist in that space, background images provide layering possibilities, so you can have extra images, text, or calls-to-action (CTAs) existing within that same space.
Using live HTML text on top of a background image, instead of including that text as part of the image, means your message is readable when images are turned off, making this a great technique for creating better, more accessible HTML emails.
Figma added a subtle repeating background pattern to the body of this email, introducing us to their new whiteboard product. The pattern they feature echoes the background found in the product.
Chipotle placed a jumbo background image behind this impactful jumbo hero and body area, including product photography and a line pattern. Over the top of this image, they have an animated GIF with transparent background, and live text in the body area.
Animated GIFs can also be used as background images, like this example from Adobe Stock, promoting festive collections with hero content including live text and a CTA button placed on top of the animated background.
If you are concerned about the experience Windows 10 Mail subscribers are getting, consider leaving out the VML. This ensures that fallback background colors give your Microsoft Outlook Suite audience a great email reading experience, without the extra decoration.
One of the fun things about bringing background imagery into your emails is that there are a few different ways you can achieve this. You can fill a small section or cover the body of your email, use a single image or a repeat pattern, and you can switch your background imagery depending on whether your reader is on desktop, mobile, Light Mode, Dark Mode, or even when they hover or roll over your image.
To implement this, you need to add some embedded CSS to Dark Mode media queries. This will make sure your Dark Mode background image is served within email clients that will support this type of media query:
It is nearly impossible to get these email clients onside. However, you can play around with background images that have a level of transparency, and apply a high contrast background color to your container, such as white for light mode and black for Dark Mode. This will allow the background color to be inverted. I tried this with the next example:
My chevron background image has an opacity of 30% on the arrows and is fully transparent between them. This means that when offending email clients take control of my Dark Mode rendering, the content is readable.
How about delighting subscribers with some interactivity? You can spread a little joy with a simple hover or rollover effect, changing the background of your container as the reader moves their cursor over your content.
With a wealth of opportunity, using background images to enhance your email designs is a great way to push the envelope and get your emails to stand out in the crowd. To help you put these techniques into practice, we have created a handy resource where you can grab the code featured in this post.
Thank you! That worked to move the background image. But I am still wondering why another image that I place on a separate layer covers all other layers, EVEN WHEN it is the lowest layer on the editor timeline. Yes, I have dragged the layer to the lowest point in the stack of elements on the timeline. But the image still appears to cover all layers above it, both in preview mode and when on an actual mobile device.
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