How to Add Background Colour for a Content Block
Make your content stand out with custom background colours. In this guide, you’ll learn how to apply a solid background colour to individual content blocks. Choose from a range of colours to match your branding, highlight sections, or simply enhance your document's visual appeal.
Setting Background Colour for a Content Block
Learn how to set a background colour for your content block.
Follow the steps below to apply the change in your QuoteCloud document.
Setting Background Colour for a Content Block
Choose a content block
Right-click the content block you want to customise. This opens the block menu.Open block settings
Choose the block settings option from the menu. The settings panel opens for the selected content block.Locate Background options
Locate the Background options in the right-hand sidebar panel. These settings control the block background.Choose Colour
Click the Colour option to apply a colour background to your content block. The colour palette will appear.Select a colour
Choose the colour you want to use for the block background. The selected colour is applied to the content block.Review the block
Check the content block in the document. Make sure the colour works with the surrounding text and layout.
FAQs
What does “Set Page Background Colour” do in QuoteCloud?
Set Page Background Colour applies a solid background colour to a content area or an entire page inside the QuoteCloud editor. This changes the visual appearance of a page or block so your quotes and proposals match your branding and look polished when generated from your sales quoting software or sales proposal software.
How do I add a background colour to a content block?
Open your document in the QuoteCloud editor and select the content block you want to style. Open the block’s styling or settings panel, choose a background colour from the colour picker or your organisation’s brand palette, apply it, then preview the page. When you’re satisfied with the look, save or publish the document so the new background appears in your quote software outputs.
Can I set a background colour for any page or content block in my document?
Yes. QuoteCloud lets you apply a custom background colour to any individual content block or to an entire page. This flexibility helps you highlight key sections, emphasise calls-to-action, or create consistent branded areas across documents produced by your proposal software or quote software.
Are page background colours compatible with templates and other styling features?
Yes. Background colours are fully compatible with QuoteCloud templates and documents created from templates. Colours applied to pages or blocks are retained alongside other template styling so branding, layout, and other template settings remain consistent across your sales quoting software and sales proposal software outputs.
What colour options are available and can I use my brand colours?
QuoteCloud provides a colour picker and a set of preset colours, and it supports your organisation’s brand palette so you can apply brand-approved colours to blocks or pages. Use these options to make proposals and quotes visually consistent with your company identity when using your quote software or proposal software.
How can I preview and test background colours to ensure they look right in final documents?
After applying a background colour, use the editor’s preview mode to view the page as recipients will see it. Check multiple templates and sample documents to confirm consistency across different outputs. Finally, save or publish and inspect a generated quote or proposal in the same format you send to customers to ensure colours render correctly.
What are best practices for using background colours in sales quotes and proposals?
Keep backgrounds subtle and purposeful: use colour to group related content or to highlight calls-to-action rather than overpower text. Ensure strong contrast between background and text for readability and accessibility. Maintain a limited palette consistent with your brand so quotes and proposals generated by your sales quoting software and sales proposal software remain professional and easy to scan.
How do I remove or reset a background colour from a content block?
Open the content block’s styling or settings panel, locate the background colour option, and choose the ‘clear’ or ‘reset’ action (or select a transparent/default option). Save or preview the document to confirm the background has been removed, restoring the block to the template or document default used by your quote software.