HTML Code for Background Color for Gmail

Garrett Morrison

I have looked everywhere and tried every code I know but I can't seem to find a code that will allow Gmail to show my full background color. I can make a background color inside of tables that shows up but want it to cover my whole email in Gmail. Please help. Thanks.

Philip Nawrocki

Hi Garrett,


You need to have a table inside a table.


<table class="container" width="100%" bgcolor="#EFF9F8" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

        

            <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]>

            <table id="tableForOutlook" align="center">

                <tr>

                    <td>

            <![endif]-->

        

        <tr>

            <td align="center" style="padding: 15px; border-bottom: 10px solid #fdb913;">


                <table class="contents" style="width: 100%; max-width: 650px;" align="center" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">


                          <<<YOUR EMAIL BODY>>>


                </table>

            </td>

        </tr>

        

        <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]>

              </td>

        </tr>

        </table>

        <![endif]-->

    </table>



The highlighted bgcolor is how to set the background color for the entire e-mail.


I use some outlook specific code in out emails so that they stay at 600px on a desktop.


Let me know if that helps and if you have more questions.


Thanks,


Phil