\begin{framed} with background-color

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Does anybody know how to set the background-color of a framed element?

\begin{framed}       
    Let me have a background :( 
\end{framed}

switch to mdframed package instead. Can do a lot more including frames and colored bgs with easy configuration. — daleif, Jul 15 '14 at 12:45
BTW: next time please provide a minimal example so we can see what kind of preamble you are using — daleif, Jul 15 '14 at 12:45
Besides framed and mdframed there is also tcolorbox to create colored boxes. — Thomas F. Sturm, Jul 15 '14 at 16:13

samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz · Accepted Answer · 2023-05-11T10:32:56.583

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Defining a background colour is pretty easy if using the mdframed package:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{mdframed}
\begin{document}
test

\begin{mdframed}[backgroundcolor=blue!20] 
    In any right triangle, the area of the square whose side is the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the areas of the squares whose sides are the two legs.
\end{mdframed}


\end{document}

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edited May 11 '23 at 10:32

answered Jul 15 '14 at 12:58

samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz

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score 20 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 15 '14 at 12:48

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The package documentation is your friend.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{framed}
\definecolor{shadecolor}{rgb}{1,0,0}
\begin{document}
\begin{shaded*}
    Let me have a background :(
\end{shaded*}
\end{document}

colour

edited Jul 15 '14 at 12:48

Przemysław Scherwentke

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answered Jul 15 '14 at 12:46

Ian Thompson

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With this solution the frame border is lost – Frank Roth Jul 15 '14 at 12:52
1

@Ian Thompson: If you load xcolor with, say, the x11names option, you can use \colorlet{shadecolor}{Red1}, which one may find a more expressive syntax. – Bernard Jul 15 '14 at 13:56

Bernard · Answer 3 · 2017-04-02T10:20:15.703

Two solutions with the framed package with a frameborder and a framecolor: I define the frshaded and frshaded* environments. Rule thickness and distance between text and frame can be easily changed.

    \documentclass [a4paper,12pt]{article}
    \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
    \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
    \usepackage{lmodern}
    \usepackage[x11names]{xcolor}
    \usepackage{framed}
    \colorlet{shadecolor}{LavenderBlush2}
    \colorlet{framecolor}{Red1}
    \usepackage{lipsum}

    \newenvironment{frshaded}{%
    \def\FrameCommand{\fboxrule=\FrameRule\fboxsep=\FrameSep \fcolorbox{framecolor}{shadecolor}}%
    \MakeFramed {\FrameRestore}}%
    {\endMakeFramed}

    \newenvironment{frshaded*}{%
    \def\FrameCommand{\fboxrule=\FrameRule\fboxsep=\FrameSep \fcolorbox{framecolor}{shadecolor}}%
    \MakeFramed {\advance\hsize-\width \FrameRestore}}%
    {\endMakeFramed}

    \begin{document}

    Text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text. text text text text text

    \begin{frshaded}
    \lipsum[1-2]
    \end{frshaded}
    \colorlet{framecolor}{VioletRed4}
    \setlength\FrameRule{1.5pt}
    \begin{frshaded*}
    \lipsum[1-2]
    \end{frshaded*}

    \end{document}

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\begin{framed} with background-color

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