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Full Width Backgrounds on Outlook '07/'10/'13

I've been using campaign monitor's http://backgrounds.cm/ code for single fixed height/width <td>s which works great across all desktop clients, but we're moving to full width emails and I can't get the full width option to display correctly in any mso version of outlook. Namely, this happens:

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I've followed their directions and kept their code as the first child of body, but the background extends into where outlook's margins should be.. I'm trying to find a way in outlook to do separate full width background rows.

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zazzyzeph Avatar asked Jan 10 '23 17:01

zazzyzeph


1 Answers

Full width table cell background images

<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml">
    <head>
    <style>
    v:* { behavior: url(#default#VML); display: inline-block; }
    </style>
    </head>
    <body>
        <center>
        <table width="100%" height="20">
            <tr>
                <td bgcolor="#dddddd" style="background-image:url('http://placekitten.com/g/500/300');background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:center;" background="http://placekitten.com/g/500/300" width="100%" height="300">
                <!--[if gte mso 9]>
                    <v:rect xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" fill="true" stroke="false" style="mso-width-percent:1000;height:300px;">
                        <v:fill type="frame" src="http://placekitten.com/g/500/300" color="#ffffff" />
                    </v:rect>
                <![endif]-->
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td bgcolor="#33cc99">
                    <table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tr><td height="5"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td bgcolor="#ffff99" style="background-image:url('http://placekitten.com/g/500/300');background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:center;" background="http://placekitten.com/g/500/300" width="100%" height="300">
                    <!--[if gte mso 9]>
                        <v:rect xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" fill="true" stroke="false" style="mso-width-percent:1000;height:300px;">
                            <v:fill type="frame" src="http://placekitten.com/g/500/300" color="#ffffff" />
                        </v:rect>
                    <![endif]-->
                </td>
            </tr>
        </table>
        </center>
    </body>
</html>
  • Tested in Outlook 2010 thru Windows 7 VMWare on OSX 10.9.2

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Tiled full width table cell background images

    <html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml">
        <head>
            <style>
                v:* { behavior: url(#default#VML); display: inline-block; }
            </style>
        </head>

        <body>

        <center>
        <table width="100%">
            <tr>
                <td bgcolor="#dddddd" style="background-image:url('http://placekitten.com/g/500/300');background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:center;" background="http://placekitten.com/g/500/300" width="100%" height="300">
                    <!--[if gte mso 9]>
                        <v:rect xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" fill="true" stroke="false" style="mso-width-percent:1000;height:300px;">
                            <v:fill type="tile" src="http://placekitten.com/g/500/300" color="#ffffff" />
                        </v:rect>
                    <![endif]-->
                </td>
            </tr>
        </table>
        </center>

        </body>
    </html>
  • Tested in Outlook 2010 thru Windows 7 VMWare on OSX 10.9.2

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Specified width table cell background images

Here is an example, two rows, the first row has 3 columns with 3 separate background images, the second row spans all the way across as one background image.

    <table width="600" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;">
        <tr>
            <td style="width: 300px; height: 80px; background-image: url('http://placekitten.com/g/300/80');">
            <!--[if gte mso 9]>
                <v:image xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" id="theImage" style='behavior: url(#default#VML); display: inline-block; position: absolute; width: 300px; height: 80px; top: 0; left: 0; border: 0; z-index: 1;' src="http://placekitten.com/g/300/80" />
                <v:shape xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" id="theText" style='behavior: url(#default#VML); display: inline-block; position: absolute; width: 300px; height: 80px; top: -5; left: -10; border: 0; z-index: 2;'>
                <div>
            <![endif]-->
                <table width="300" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;">
                    <tr>
                        <td height="80" align="center" valign="top" style="color:#ffffff;font-size:20px;">
                            <span>Text</span>
                        </td>
                    </tr>
                </table>
            <!--[if gte mso 9]>
                </div>
                </v:shape>
            <![endif]-->
            </td>
            <td style="width: 100px; height: 80px; background-image: url('http://placekitten.com/g/100/80');">
            <!--[if gte mso 9]>
                <v:image xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" id="theImage" style='behavior: url(#default#VML); display: inline-block; position: absolute; width: 100px; height: 80px; top: 0; left: 0; border: 0; z-index: 1;' src="http://placekitten.com/g/100/80" />
                <v:shape xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" id="theText" style='behavior: url(#default#VML); display: inline-block; position: absolute; width: 100px; height: 80px; top: -5; left: -10; border: 0; z-index: 2;'>
                <div>
            <![endif]-->
                <table width="80" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;">
                    <tr>
                        <td height="80" align="center" valign="top">
                            <span>Text</span>
                        </td>
                    </tr>
                </table>
            <!--[if gte mso 9]>
                </div>
                </v:shape>
            <![endif]-->
            </td>
            <td style="width: 200px; height: 80px; background-image: url('http://placekitten.com/g/200/100');">
            <!--[if gte mso 9]>
                <v:image xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" id="theImage" style='behavior: url(#default#VML); display: inline-block; position: absolute; width: 200px; height: 80px; top: 0; left: 0; border: 0; z-index: 1;' src="http://placekitten.com/g/200/100" />
                <v:shape xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" id="theText" style='behavior: url(#default#VML); display: inline-block; position: absolute; width: 200px; height: 80px; top: -5; left: -10; border: 0; z-index: 2;'>
                <div>
            <![endif]-->
                <table width="200" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;">
                    <tr>
                        <td height="80" align="center" valign="top" style="color:#ffffff;font-size:20px;">
                            <span>Text</span>
                        </td>
                    </tr>
                </table>
            <!--[if gte mso 9]>
                </div>
                </v:shape>
            <![endif]-->
            </td>
        </tr>
    </table>
    <table width="600" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;">
        <tr>
            <td style="width: 600px; height: 150px; background-image: url('http://placekitten.com/g/600/150');">
            <!--[if gte mso 9]>
                <v:image xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" id="theImage" style='behavior: url(#default#VML); display: inline-block; position: absolute; width: 600px; height: 150px; top: 0; left: 0; border: 0; z-index: 1;' src="http://placekitten.com/g/600/150" />
                <v:shape xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" id="theText" style='behavior: url(#default#VML); display: inline-block; position: absolute; width: 600px; height: 150px; top: -5; left: -10; border: 0; z-index: 2;'>
                <div>
            <![endif]-->
                <table width="600" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;">
                    <tr>
                        <td height="150" align="center" valign="top" style="color:#ffffff;font-size:20px;">
                            <span>Text</span>
                        </td>
                    </tr>
                </table>
            <!--[if gte mso 9]>
                </div>
                </v:shape>
            <![endif]-->
            </td>
        </tr>
    </table>
  • Tested in Outlook 2010 thru Windows 7 VMWare on OSX 10.9.2

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davidcondrey Avatar answered Jan 21 '23 15:01

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