Gmail shows download icon on images of HTML Email

Question

We have a Html Builder, that allows you to create responsive html for emails. We are using a third party engine to send the emails in bulk. The problem is, when email is being o

Answer 1

As @Pebbs explained above, Gmail appears to detect images within certain size constraints as downloadable attachments. To circumvent this, what worked for me was using the "background" attribute to display the image within a tag. This effectively makes Gmail perceive the image as a background image, rather than as a potentially downloadable . So for example, within your code instead of the following:

Use:

Note that the VML in between the s might be needed for older email clients to render the image properly.