background color for text box

[JohnSmall]

I see this question has been asked many times. And always closed without being resolved.

So I'll ask again. How do you set the background color of a text_box?

If it's not totally simple e.g. pdf.text_box, 'some text', background_color: 'BEBEBE' then it should be made to be totally simple.

The documentation gives no clue. The closest mention is formatted_text_box, but that only allows you do set the color of the text, not the background color of the box.

[gettalong]

The prawn manual builder uses a helper method to create the colored boxes, see https://github.com/prawnpdf/prawn-manual_builder/blob/master/lib/prawn/manual_builder/example.rb#L328.

Also see page 55 of the Prawn manual on text/formatted_callbacks.rb where callback hooks are used to color a text box.

[PhilippePerret]

Unless I'm mistaken, this is a dead link.

[pointlessone]

Try one of previous tags (before 0.4.0) instead of master branch.

[pointlessone]

Or try colored_box in 0.4.0.