Gmail – White Fonts on White Background Issue

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A friend of mine writes friendly emails to a group (invitations to parties and such) using Microsoft Outlook (desktop client).

For some reason sometimes he uses white fonts on black background, but when I open his messages on Gmail, I get white fonts on white background.

Anyone knows the source of the problem and a possible solution? (Besides telling my friend not to do it again, which I did but he just forgets.)

Best Answer

The problem is that Outlook formats HTML messages in a way that Gmail does not completely understand (thus the background missing). Email clients have different support of HTML elements. I know that Gmail supports settings background-image via CSS, but not sure how Outlook sets it. Otherwise the question is too broad to answer without any example emails.