Gmail – ‘Select a Background Image’ Option Not Visible

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“Select a background image” option is not visible in Gmail.

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Why?

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The option to do so should be behind Themes. Choose Custom Light or Custom Dark first and then click on "Learn more" in the bottom left-hand corner for further advice.

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

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.

Gmail custom themes: how to add a background image

You can't - if you are going to create your own custom themes.

Background pictures are currently only supported for themes that are either 1) by Google themselves, or 2) by authorized artists' themes submitted to Google.

If you are really dying to tweak the LooknFeel of GMail, you might want to give Firefox + GreaseMonkey a shot.

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