IS there any way to put color as background in HTML email for gmail?
I used this for making body background grey but it doesnt work
<body leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" bgcolor="#e2e3e7" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
Wrap your email in a single celled table with 100% width and height and set the background colour for that cell.
<table width="100%" height="100%">
<tr>
<td width="100%" height="100%" bgcolor="#e2e3e7">
<!-- "Content" table goes here -->
<table width="600" align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff">
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Gmail (and other mailers) remove all css that is not inlined. So the hack of the tables works only because you define the color inline. You don't need a table, instead use
<body style="background-color:#242a30;">
I just had to do the same thing. If you put your email body into a table, you can set the table's bgcolor and that will work.
I had <body bgcolor='lightcyan'>, then I changed it to <body> <table bgcolor='lightcyan'> and put my content into that table.
in most cases you will have a centered email ... so do this an easy align="center" didnt work for me so i make a width="1680px"
<table>
<tr>
<td width="1680px" align="center" valign="middle" bgcolor="#e4ebdd">
<table width='600' align='center' bgcolor='#ffffff'>
<!-- .... -->
</td>
</tr>
