Gmail not displaying images in HTML email template

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I’ve been working on an HTML email template and testing it across different email clients. Everything works fine except for Gmail - the images just won’t show up. I know Gmail can display images because I receive emails with images daily. I made sure to put the logo directly in the HTML markup instead of using CSS background images.

Here’s the code I’m using for my header section:

<table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td align="center">
<img src="https://mysite.com/assets/logo-header.png" alt="Company Logo" style="display: block; max-width: 100%;" width="200" height="80"/>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

What could be causing this issue? Any ideas on how to fix it?

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Had this exact issue last month with our newsletter templates. Gmail blocks images by default until recipients whitelist you or add you to contacts. But there’s another common problem - your image hosting server probably isn’t configured right for email clients. Gmail’s super strict about HTTPS and server response headers. Upload your images to a CDN like Cloudinary or ImageKit instead of hosting them yourself. Also check that your server returns proper MIME types for PNGs. I switched to a dedicated email image host and it fixed everything. Keep images under 1MB and use absolute URLs too.

3

check if your host blocks hotlinking - some servers won’t let external sites pull images, which breaks email display. Gmail also caches broken image requests, so try renaming the file or adding ?v=2 to the URL. that fixed it for me when everything else failed.

4

Gmail’s weird with image dimensions. Drop the height attribute and just use width - let it scale naturally. Gmail blocks images sometimes when you set both width and height in HTML.

Make sure your image URL actually works by pasting it directly in a browser. I’ve had luck adding border=“0” to the img tag itself, not just the table. Gmail can be picky about missing attributes.

If it’s still broken, try a JPG instead of PNG - might be a server config issue.