HTML mail design - Writing text above image

[phpmagesh]

Hi all,

I am designing a HTML mail template which will have images as well as text in it.

i am trying to have a image in the background and want to write dynamic text above that. say name of the viewer who view the mail.

I found that CSS will not support any more for mail templates. this will be a problem always.

Is there any way to show a dynamic text by keeping the background image in back end. this should support all mail servers like (gmail, yahoo, outlook etc.,)

Thanks much!

Magesh

[JKing]

No. No matter what you do some mail clients just don't support background images. The best thing to do is set a background color along with the image.

[phpmagesh]

Thanks King! i did as you said,

however, Is there any way to write the dynamic text above image. i placed the image using <img> in <td>.

[JKing]

No, you would have to make the image a background image.

<td style="background-image:url(http://www.example.com/images/background.jpg');background-color:#ffffff;">
Dynamic text here.
</td>

Here's a resource that you may find helpful, it is a guide to css support for major email clients. CSS Support Guide

[phpmagesh]

background-image:url is not working as we expected. i google many solutions, which says css will not support in html mail.

i tried with the above method but image is not loading. i can see the text in that place

[JKing]

Any CSS has to be inline. As I have said before background-image is only supported by some email clients so therefore you have to also include a background color for those that do not support images.

My previous example was only an example you would need to replace the URL with your own.