How to Add Background Colour for a Column (Single and Multiple)

Customise your layout by adding background colours to individual columns.
In this quick guide, you’ll learn how to set a solid background colour for one or more columns inside a container. Whether you're creating contrast, highlighting content, or matching your brand style adding background colours makes your design more effective and visually appealing.

Setting Background Colour for a Column

  1. Learn how to set up a background colour for a single column or multiple columns.
  2. Follow the steps below to apply the change in your QuoteCloud document.

Setting Background Colour for a Column

1

Open the column menu

Right-click the column you want to apply a background colour to.

This opens the contextual menu.

2

Open Column Settings

Click Column Settings to customise your column layout and appearance.

The Column Settings panel opens on the right-hand side.

3

Find Background settings

In the right-hand panel, look for the Background settings.

Click the setting to view the available background types.

4

Choose Colour

From the available background types, click Colour.

This sets a solid background for your column.

5

Select a colour

Select any colour from the palette.

The selected colour is applied to the column.

6

Apply colours to multiple columns

Repeat the previous steps for another column in the same container.

Choose a colour for each column you want to style.

7

Review the layout

The applied colours are now visible across the columns.

Use different colours to highlight the difference between each column.

Finished

You have learned how to customise column background colours.

Use column colours to create stronger visual structure in your document.

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