How make background image on newsletter in outlook?

I'm trying to make newsletter where I have some image as background and text on it. This is easy but I need this to work on Ms Outlook.

What I have tried:

<td width="100" height="100" style="background: url('someurl');">text</td>

<td width="100" height="100" background="someurl">text</td>

<td width="100" height="100">
    <div style="width: 0px; height:0px; position: relative;">
        <div style="width: 100px; height: 100px; position: absolute; background: url('someurl')">
           text
        </div>
    </div>
</td>

But nothing works well on outlook. I have no idea how fix it. I'm using outlook 2007.

Any help would be appreciated.

Powerful tool for "Bulletproof Email Background Images" (VML for Outlook 2007/2010/2013, and HTML/CSS for Outlook 2000/2003, Gmail, Hotmail...)

http://emailbg.net

as an exemple :

    <div style="background-color:#f6f6f6;">
  <!--[if gte mso 9]>
  <v:background xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" fill="t">
    <v:fill type="tile" src="http://i.imgur.com/n8Q6f.png" color="#f6f6f6"/>
  </v:background>
  <![endif]-->
  <table height="100%" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
    <tr>
      <td valign="top" align="left" background="http://i.imgur.com/n8Q6f.png">
      </td>
    </tr>
  </table>
</div>

in order to have the specified background image to Full email body.

This link help to use the Vector Markup Language (VML)

msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb264137%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-VML#_Toc416858389

you cannot add a background image to an html newsletter which is to be viewed in outlook. It just wont work, as they ignore the property.

You can only have block colours (background-color) behind text.

Outlook doesn't support the following CSS:

azimuth
background-attachment
background-image
background-position
background-repeat
border-spacing
bottom
caption-side
clear
clip
content
counter-increment
counter-reset
cue-before, cue-after, cue
cursor
display
elevation
empty-cells
float
font-size-adjust
font-stretch
left
line-break
list-style-image
list-style-position
marker-offset
max-height
max-width
min-height
min-width
orphans
outline
outline-color
outline-style
outline-width
overflow
overflow-x
overflow-y
pause-before, pause-after, pause
pitch
pitch-range
play-during
position
quotes
richness
right
speak
speak-header
speak-numeral
speak-punctuation
speech-rate
stress
table-layout
text-shadow
text-transform
top
unicode-bidi
visibility
voice-family
volume
widows
word-spacing
z-index

Source: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa338201.aspx

UPDATE - July 2015

I thought it best to update this list as it gets the odd upvote every now and then - a great link to current email client support is available here: https://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/

How make background image on newsletter in outlook?

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