html - background image on TD in Outlook 2007

Question

I've been told using tables is the best way to send emails although it's been twice as difficult. I have setup the email in tables, set all of the cells which need backgrounds with the background="" property, as well as using CSS in <style> tags saying the same thing to cover my bases. The body background shows fine in outlook, but the TD backgrounds do not. I've tried also using but that doesn't work either. I've read that Outlook 2007 doesn't support background images and won't in the future, I'm thinking there has to be a way around it?

Answer 1

This should help:

You may have read earlier about our approach to applying a background image to an email. This involved not only adding a background image to the entire HTML page, but wrapping all content in a table with a background image applied to it. However, there was a limitation to this method, in that while you could apply a background image to the entire table, you couldn’t apply one to an individual table cell. Thanks to one of our star customers, Brian Thies, we’ve been shown a little code that not only will allow you to add a background image to a table cell, but works in most major email clients, too...

This technique... forces a background image to display in Outlook 2003/2007/2010...