Email Signature table background
Hey All
Trying to design an email signature for one of my client's, normally I'm pretty good at this, but now they want a background image in the table, which acts like a border. I can get the layout correct, or put a background image on the whole body, just not the individual table - well, saying that, I can, but it doesn't work in Outlook! Does anyone have any experience with email signatures and can point me in the right direction?
Any and all help is greatly appreciated.
Signatures in Outlook are a right pain in the ****, you can't do it normally! I wouldn't use tables anyway, use divisions and styles instead.
You can insert custom HTML signatures by editing the files in <User>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Signatures (Win7) or Documents and Settings\<User>\Application Data\Microsoft\Signatures (WinXP)
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Aye, thanks, but you pretty much have to use tables in emails in order for maximum compatibility. Using a boilerplate at the moment, that contains a lot of reset CSS, but I still cannot get it to display properly - it does online, but as soon as it's in Outlook, it cocks up.
This comment isn't going to be of any help to anyone, but I miss the days of unformatted ASCII e-mails
Outlook can read MHTML or whatever it's called, can't it? Create the page so it's ok online, then copy/paste in to the Word document in the location above? It's how I get round the uselessness of Outlook
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It's not as easy as that, I've been doing HTML signatures for years now, but this is the first time I've had an email client not accept a CSS table background. Like I said before, it looks fine when viewed in a browser, just not in Outlook.
Do you have an image of what you want to achieve? I cant quite visualise what you're trying to do
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The patterned border is what I'm trying to achieve, damn thing won't show in Outlook.
Doesn't it all seem a bit ott for emails?
That's not really the point mate. I've got a mate coming over later, so might be able to solve this then.
Just a thought, Doesn't outlook use the same engine as Internet explorer? So surely if you code it to work in IE it'd show up in outlook.
You would have thought that, but no! It doesn't! It's something to do with Outlook not supporting the CSS for background images, that and combined with tables, which you have to use for maximum compatibility.
Outlook doesn't support background images. You'll have to slice the image into 4 and use tables to get it to look right.
Yeah I gave up on them a long time ago. They were happy with just a plain border. Cheers though noobnick.
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