Multi-layer elements in HTML Email for Outlook 2007 and 2010
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Hope everyone is enjoying this wonderful Aloha Friday, I have a question about HTML emails. With specific regard to outlook 2007 and 2010.

I'm working on a project that involves overlaying a few PNGs on top of eachother, in fact not even a few, just 2.

The current solution that works for pretty much the rest of my market is

      <table>
        <tr>
          <td></td>
          <td valign="top" rowspan="2" style="padding-left:7px;padding-top:17px">
            <img src="path/to/image.jpg" />
          </td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td colspan="2">
            <img src="path/to/image.jpg" />
        </td>
      </tr>
    </table>

This works awesome, and would be great if Outlook 07 and 2010 still supported <ROWSPAN> attribute.

So I've been looking around and I saw this tutorial on using VML http://blog.oxagile.com/2010/04/23/background-images-for-outlook-2007-and-outlook-2010-beta/ to layer images. With that said, I'm more than willing to give this a try but for simplicity sake I'd like to see if anyone has a more elegant solution than this "IF MS SOFTWARE INCLUDE DIFFERENT CODE HERE" type of deal.

Please let me know what you folks think/know.      