Gmail – How to add a background image to a Gmail message

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I want to have a background image while I compose a new message in Gmail. I must be able to type over it. Is it possible?

Best Answer

From Gmail help topic: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=8260

Rich formatting is not available in Gmail's basic HTML view or in your signature settings. At this time there is no way to save customized formatting options as a default Gmail setting.

There is no way to do that with their editor, so no way to make it simple.

However, since such thing is most likely linked to an HTML mail, you can probably do it yourself by writing the email in HTML and putting the background yourself. This is beyond my knowledge, though, and someone else would have to explain how.

Another possibility would be to use Gmail as any mail provider, and send emails from a program like Outlook or Thunderbird, and define background there. But I guess it misses a bit the point, there.