Changing background color in Text Frame

[willernest]

I've created a text frame from a circle.  At that point you can easily change the color of the circle.  Convert it to a text frame.  Type in some text.  Once you're in a text frame, the various options for color are then associated with the text itself.  How does one go back and change the background color of the circle?

[dutchshader]

afaik, it is not possible to change the background color of a textframe. 

[carl123]

In Publisher select the Fill Tool and change the 2nd dropdown box in the Context Toolbar from Text to Frame, then change the colour.

In Designer you can try a recolour adjustment if your text is pure white, (black and other colours can be problematic)

[willernest]

Thanks for the quick responses.  Nice to know that Publisher has this option.

[KevinG]

Just do in Publisher and copy to Designer, a pain but does work, 

[walt.farrell]

6 hours ago, KevinG said:

Just do in Publisher and copy to Designer, a pain but does work, 

Or, just stay in Publisher to do work that needs that function, as StudioLink will let you easily switch to the Designer Persona. No pain at all
(Or, if you must switch back to Designer to get, e.g., the Pixel Persona or Export Persona, File > Edit in Designer will get you there without needing to copy data between the two applications. Though I suppose that some users might prefer copy/paste to File > Edit in Publisher, do the work, and File > Edit in Designer again.)

@willernest: Another option for you is to put another circle behind your circular text frame, and fill it with the color you want.

[Neceros]

On 3/15/2019 at 5:22 AM, carl123 said:

In Publisher select the Fill Tool and change the 2nd dropdown box in the Context Toolbar from Text to Frame, then change the colour.

In Designer you can try a recolour adjustment if your text is pure white, (black and other colours can be problematic)

I registered just to thank you for this info. Kudos.

[skmwrp]

On 12/17/2019 at 12:14 AM, KevinG said:

Just do in Publisher and copy to Designer, a pain but does work, 

Thanks for the advice. I did as you say, creating a yellow sticky comment note, and then created an asset out of it so I can now just drag & drop without having to leave Designer.

[Sebili]

On 3/15/2019 at 1:22 PM, carl123 said:

In Publisher select the Fill Tool and change the 2nd dropdown box in the Context Toolbar from Text to Frame, then change the colour.

In Designer you can try a recolour adjustment if your text is pure white, (black and other colours can be problematic)

OMFG, this issue was literally driving me CRAZY!

Thank you so much sir ♥️

[PhilipJohnston]

I love Affinity Publisher, but this is janky nonsense - has taken me two hours to figure out how to change the background color of a text box. 

Here's how, for those also losing their sanity over this simplest of tasks:

1) Select text frame with the "Move" tool (Ok. I'm not moving anything, but sure. I know Affinity rolls this way)
2) Select the gradient tool (wait...what??? I don't want a gradient - why would I ever try that? Where is the fill tool?)
3) Change the second "context" setting in the top menu from "text" to "frame"

Good grief. 

To the Affinity team: these steps are not hard to follow, but they are impossible to guess. That's poor design.

[walt.farrell]

54 minutes ago, PhilipJohnston said:

I love Affinity Publisher, but this is janky nonsense - has taken me two hours to figure out how to change the background color of a text box. 

Here's how, for those also losing their sanity over this simplest of tasks:

1) Select text frame with the "Move" tool (Ok. I'm not moving anything, but sure. I know Affinity rolls this way)
2) Select the gradient tool (wait...what??? I don't want a gradient - why would I ever try that? Where is the fill tool?)
3) Change the second "context" setting in the top menu from "text" to "frame"

Good grief. 

To the Affinity team: these steps are not hard to follow, but they are impossible to guess. That's poor design.

To change the background color of a Text Frame, in Publisher, use the Text Frame panel: Window > Text > Text Frame if it isn't already selected to show in your Studio.

[Iztok]

5 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

To change the background color of a Text Frame, in Publisher, use the Text Frame panel: Window > Text > Text Frame if it isn't already selected to show in your Studio.

You see also I said that, this option is hidden so you need to get some instruction and this is not good for users, we work intuitive, so command must be where you acpect it, not hidden, many people will ask this question, simple and intuitive, not complicated and everything must work logicaly