Answers.Body: <p>Purely due to a typo the background colour was ##4f81bd (yes doubled down on the hash)</p>
  <p>so clearly some email readers go 'doh, you put two and you only need one so i will ignore one of them and show what you meant to show', and others go 'two hashes, are you nuts! this will NOT be shown'</p>
  <p>so now we know!</p>
  
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Body: <p>Bit obscure but client had this issue and while it showed in my Mac Mail, in gmail itself the links did not show at all - not just a case of white  on white, but absolutely nothing to click on</p>
  
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Title: Why might Mosaico emails with links with backgrounds sometimes not show in gmail (and possibly other providers)
ThreadText: # Why might Mosaico emails with links with backgrounds sometimes not show in gmail (and possibly other providers)
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2022-08-15)
  
  Bit obscure but client had this issue and while it showed in my Mac Mail, in gmail itself the links did not show at all - not just a case of white on white, but absolutely nothing to click on
  
  **Tags:** mosaico
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_0 on 2022-08-15. Score: 1
  
  Purely due to a typo the background colour was ##4f81bd (yes doubled down on the hash)
  
  so clearly some email readers go 'doh, you put two and you only need one so i will ignore one of them and show what you meant to show', and others go 'two hashes, are you nuts! this will NOT be shown'
  
  so now we know!
  
  
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