Setting a background color for an HTML message
The best way to set a background color for the entire message is to place a bit of HTML code inside the BODY tag of the message.
You can view the BODY tag by following these steps:
- Edit the message
- On the editing page, click on the Advanced button to open a window that gives you access to advanced features
- Turn on
- Edit the BODY tag as follows (in this example the background color is a light grey).
<body>
... becomes:
<body bgcolor="#efefef" style="background-color: #efefef;">
By using both the bgcolor and a style, we take care of a wider array of email clients, increasing the likelyhood that the background will be rendered correctly.