Gmail background color not working properly in HTML mail

Question

August 2023 - Does anyone have a simple example of creating a background color with the entire message body that works in Gmail? I've looked everywhere and as of August 2023, not a single code example works in Gmail. Hopefully someone can share a small snippet from to that works in Gmail as of August 2023. I will be forever grateful.

I tried countless options and absolutely none of them worked.

Answer 1

Hope this helps:

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            <h1 style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-size: 30px; text-align:center; background: #e1c18b; color: #643c33; line-height: 2;">与我自拍</h1>
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