Email template with background image

[Caimilan]

Is there any posibility to use background images in a template at this time?
Thanks for your geat work!

[bago]

The bundled "master templates" do not declare background images, do not make use of background images.

Theoretically you could write your own template and define an user-definable backgroun-image. The main issue is that you can't drag&drop it but you will have to put the URL in a text-box in the left panel (content).

I'd like to add some UI to support background images in a better way, but I still have to find a good solution: an option is to create an "image widget" for the content tab and then simply show the placeholder or the widget only in the content tab (and not in the main wyswiyg editing area) and let people drag or choose images from that tab. Main drawbackl is that you can't drag from the gallery to the content tab given they share the same space and you can't see them both at the same time.

On the other side I don't know how I could implement "hover tools" in the main wywiwg editing are (like the one you see on normal images) for background-images given that background-images are not "html element" but attributes of html elements and the background images do not take space, instead they share the space with other "content" that may be editable too... so the risk is to have overlapping controls.