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I want to have a colored box around the text/sentences and its width will be fixed to be 80% of the page width. I tried \fcolorbox but it can't break lines. It is possible to do it with TikZ or is there a handy package available? Thx!

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fqx
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4 Answers4

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with tcolorbox:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tcolorbox}
\definecolor{myviolet}{rgb}{0.73,0.56,0.64}
\newtcolorbox{mybox}{
    arc=0pt,
    boxrule=0pt,
    colback=myviolet,
    width=.8\textwidth,   % this option controls the width of the box
    colupper=white,
    fontupper=\bfseries
}

\begin{document}
\begin{mybox}
   Example
\end{mybox}

\end{document}

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d-cmst
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7

It seems that an answer with mdframed is missing. Here it is.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[framemethod=TikZ]{mdframed}
\definecolor{myviolet}{rgb}{0.73,0.56,0.64}

\usepackage{lipsum}

\newmdenv[%
    rightmargin=.2\textwidth,
    backgroundcolor=myviolet,
    linewidth=0pt,
    fontcolor=white%
]{mybox}

\begin{document}

\lipsum[1]

\begin{mybox}
Example
\end{mybox}

\end{document}

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karlkoeller
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5

Solution Idea

In order to break lines, we can use minipage environment inside a \colorbox.

The Solution

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{color}

\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}

\lipsum[1]

\medskip

\colorbox{Lavender}{
  \begin{minipage}[c]{0.8\textwidth}
    \large\color{White}\lipsum[2]    
  \end{minipage}}

\medskip

\lipsum[3]

\end{document}

Output

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Limitation

Can not handle page breaks.

Masroor
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  • a bit of extra space between the end of the box and the following text would look better. – barbara beeton Dec 27 '13 at 16:23
  • @barbarabeeton Thanks for your input. Noticed that, did not bother since the basic solution was there. Updated anyway. You can never ignore the looks :-) – Masroor Dec 27 '13 at 16:29
4

This seems to give what you want, at least as long as you do not need pagebreaks (for such needs look at the framed or mdframed packages):

\documentclass[12pt, a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[showframe,noheadfoot,nomarginpar,textwidth=15cm,textheight=23cm]{geometry}
\usepackage[x11names]{xcolor} 

\begin{document}

\noindent\colorbox{Thistle3}{\parbox{\dimexpr 0.8\textwidth -2\fboxsep\relax} {\sffamily\bfseries\color{white}Example.  Example. Example.  Example. Example.  Example.  Example.  Example.}}

\end{document}

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Bernard
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