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Background imagery in Outlook with the Design Editor
Hello fellow Topliners,
We have a campaign we are working on that focuses heavily on background imagery. Of course, the Outlook Client/App (not Outlook Online) doesn't support background imagery.
Normally I'd use VML or the Bulletproof Background Images tool to get these to show up in Outlook, but since we are using the drag-and-drop Design Editor in Eloqua we can't edit the containers to add this custom code.
Do you know if there is a workaround to get background imagery to show in Outlook using the Design Editor in Eloqua?
Thanks!
Ryan
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Just an update here - but I've exported the HTML from the Design Editor and just switched to coding instead. VML was able to get the imagery to load properly. It would be nice if this was automatically accounted for with the Design Editor.
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Hi there!
I usually have this problem with Background images and Outlook version desktop
Could you share the piece of code regarding VML that you used?
I'd really appreciate that! Thanks in advance
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Hi Victor,
For a background image in a cell, I added this code to the <td> of that cell:
<td background="yourimage.png" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="600" valign="top">
<!--[if gte mso 9]>
<v:rect xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" fill="true" stroke="false" style="width:600px;">
<v:fill type="tile" src="yourimage.png" color="#ffffff" />
<v:textbox style="mso-fit-shape-to-text:true" inset="0,0,0,0">
<![endif]-->
<div>
Then, the code before the closing </td> should look something like:
</div>
<!--[if gte mso 9]>
</v:textbox>
</v:rect>
<![endif]-->
</td>
There is a tool that will generate this code for you, but it's from a competing company so not sure if I'm allowed to link to it here or not.
Thanks,
Ryan
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Thank you @User_NTXCP, Ryan!!
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No problem, happy to help!
