diff --git a/apps/x/apps/renderer/src/components/email-view.tsx b/apps/x/apps/renderer/src/components/email-view.tsx
index bd720692..173e22ee 100644
--- a/apps/x/apps/renderer/src/components/email-view.tsx
+++ b/apps/x/apps/renderer/src/components/email-view.tsx
@@ -312,6 +312,10 @@ function buildEmailDocument(
     overflow-y: hidden;
     word-wrap: break-word;
     padding-bottom: 4px;
+    /* Contain the first child's top margin. Without this it collapses through
+       <body>, shifting the box down while body.scrollHeight stays short — so
+       the height we hand the iframe cuts the last line off. */
+    display: flow-root;
   }
   body > *:last-child { margin-bottom: 0; }
   img { max-width: 100%; height: auto; }
diff --git a/apps/x/apps/renderer/src/lib/email-quotes.test.ts b/apps/x/apps/renderer/src/lib/email-quotes.test.ts
index 0caf540b..6b29a668 100644
--- a/apps/x/apps/renderer/src/lib/email-quotes.test.ts
+++ b/apps/x/apps/renderer/src/lib/email-quotes.test.ts
@@ -79,6 +79,14 @@ describe('prepareEmailHtml — quote detection', () => {
     expect(html).toContain('.a{color:red}')
   })
 
+  it('preserves <body> attributes, which carry the email background', () => {
+    // Embedded in the host <body>, the parser merges these onto it. Dropping
+    // the tag would strip the background off every styled newsletter.
+    const { html } = prepareEmailHtml('<html><body bgcolor="#f4f4f4" style="margin:0"><p>Hi</p></body></html>')
+    expect(html).toContain('bgcolor="#f4f4f4"')
+    expect(html).toContain('margin:0')
+  })
+
   it('ignores quoted content when deciding whether the email is styled', () => {
     // The table lives only in the quote, so the body should still adapt to theme.
     const { styled } = prepareEmailHtml(
diff --git a/apps/x/apps/renderer/src/lib/email-quotes.ts b/apps/x/apps/renderer/src/lib/email-quotes.ts
index 37fdd553..d69cd3f2 100644
--- a/apps/x/apps/renderer/src/lib/email-quotes.ts
+++ b/apps/x/apps/renderer/src/lib/email-quotes.ts
@@ -143,10 +143,12 @@ export function prepareEmailHtml(rawHtml: string): PreparedEmail {
   const doc = new DOMParser().parseFromString(rawHtml, 'text/html')
   const hasQuote = markQuotedNodes(doc) && unmarkIfNothingRemains(doc)
   const styled = isStyledDocument(doc)
-  // Emails ship <style> blocks that the parser hoists into <head>. Only the
-  // body gets re-embedded downstream, so carry the head along with it — a
-  // <style> is just as valid inside <body>.
-  const html = (doc.head?.innerHTML || '') + (doc.body?.innerHTML || '')
+  // Serialize <head> and <body> as *elements*, not just their contents. Most
+  // emails carry a <body bgcolor=… style=…>, and when this HTML is embedded
+  // inside the host <body>, the parser merges those attributes onto it — which
+  // is how backgrounds have always applied. Concatenating innerHTML would drop
+  // the tag and with it the attributes.
+  const html = doc.documentElement?.innerHTML || doc.body?.innerHTML || ''
   return { html, hasQuote, styled }
 }
 
