struggling to set a background image in HTML emails for all mail programs
<p>I am trying to set a  background image in an HTML email which needs to viewed in programs such as webmail and gmail aswell.</p>

<p>I have read other tutorials and the general rule is it is not recommended, I used the background in the body tag and as a failover have the same background image used in table tag, as some programs strip away the body and head tage from the emails.</p>

<p>Is there a way to successfully carry a background over web based programs and on a phone such as samsung?</p>

<p>HTML</p>

<pre><code>&lt;body topmargin="10" leftmargin="0" bottomargin="20" background="images/background.jpg"&gt;

&lt;!--first table contains failover background--&gt;

&lt;table width="100%" height="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td background="images/background.jpg"&gt;
&lt;center&gt;
&lt;table style="border: #FFF 4px solid;" width="600px" cellpadding="0"  cellspacing="0"&gt;
&lt;tr name="link-1"&gt;
&lt;td align="center" valign="top"&gt;
&lt;font style="font-family: Century Gothic,CenturyGothic,AppleGothic,sans-serif;font-size:12px; color:#FFF;"&gt;CLICK HERE TO VIEW IN BROWSER&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;

&lt;!--THE REST OF THE MAIL THAT WORKS--&gt;

&lt;/BODY&gt;
&lt;/HTML&gt;
</code></pre>