title: Outlook newsletter background image and text
body: <p>I'm having some difficulties adding text and a background image to a TD in a newsletter, below the code I've used to display them. The background is visible, but the text is not being displayed.</p>
  
  <pre><code>       {if !empty($aModules.mkNews)}
              {foreach name=mkNews from=$aModules.mkNews item=mkNews}
                   &lt;td width="230" style="background:url(http://www.example.com/images/content/mkNews/{$mkNews.mkNewsID}/image_{$mkNews.image|getImage:'_big'}) no-repeat center center; text-align: center; font-size: 14px; color: white; font-family:verdana; padding: 20px 0; line-height:22px;"&gt;
                       &lt;table background="http://www.example.com/images/content/mkNews/{$mkNews.mkNewsID}/image_{$mkNews.image|getImage:'_big'}" width="230" height="230"&gt;
                           &lt;tr&gt;
                               &lt;td style="text-align: center; font-size: 14px; color: white; font-family:verdana; padding: 20px 0; line-height:22px;"&gt;
                               &lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;
                               &lt;v:image xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" id="theImage" style='behavior: url(#default#VML); display:inline-block; height:230px; width:230px; border:0; z-index:1;' src="http://www.example.com/images/content/mkNews/{$mkNews.mkNewsID}/image_{$mkNews.image|getImage:'_big'}"/&gt;
                               &lt;v:shape xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" id="theText" style='behavior: url(#default#VML); display:inline-block; position:absolute; height:230px; width:230px; top:0; left:0; border:0; z-index:2;'&gt;
                               &lt;![endif]--&gt;
                               {$mkNews.message}
                               &lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;
                               &lt;/v:shape&gt;
                               &lt;![endif]--&gt;
                               &lt;/td&gt;
                           &lt;/tr&gt;
                       &lt;/table&gt;
                   &lt;/td&gt;
               {/foreach}
           {/if}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Can anybody point me in the right direction? I don't have much experience with the v-tags that outlook uses. </p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance!</p>