

Link to a YouTube video with Play button overlay Options-> Page Color-> Fill Effect…-> tab: Picture.To apply a background color when composing a message use This is a simple and effective way to stand out from all the “white background” emails that one normally receives.


The tag which used to control this never was a standard and its use is no longer recommended as it was basically only supported in Internet Explorer.Īs an alternative, you should use the tag. Then you include a link to this page in your email. If you really want to make a cheerful greeting with background music and scrolling text, then it is best to create this as a html-page and place it somewhere on a webserver (many ISPs provide some web space which you can use for this with your Internet subscription for home). Now that these features are gone, you are left with some workarounds and alternatives to achieve something similar but to be honest You pretty much have to find new creative ways to cheer up your emails. Granted Many other email applications do not support (and may never had supported) these features either. At that time, Outlook was still very much a business email client and Microsoft never bothered to implement a new and secure way to do this again.

This all used to be possible in Outlook as well up until a security update took the feature away a long (long!) time ago. It seems like such a nice way to cheer up a birthday email or a Christmas wish Add some background music and scrolling text.
