Make elements overlap in cross-client HTML emails?

Question

In normal HTML for browsers, making elements overlap is easy.

But in the dark world of HTML email, where the motto is \"code like it\'s 1996\" because Outlook uses

Answer 1

A little late to the conversation, but this similar answer is the technique you are looking for.

Your example is a lot more complex however as you are spanning over both rows and columns. I'm up for the challenge:

  

    

    
    

    
    

    
  
  

    

      Title Here
    
    

      Image Here
    
  
  

    

      Column
...
...
...
    
    

      Heading 1
    
  
  

    

      Content
...
...
...
    
  

This is as close as you'll get. You can't make non-rectangles, so the top Header in the body has to be in it's own cell.