# Customising column backgrounds

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/customising-column-backgrounds/76057>\
**Category:** Email Marketing Tool\
**Tags:** marketing-email\
**Created:** [February 27, 2023, 3:06pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/customising-column-backgrounds/76057 "2023-02-27T15:06:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![LHill10](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9e8a1a/32.png) [@LHill10](https://community.hubspot.com/u/LHill10)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2023, 3:06pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/customising-column-backgrounds/76057/1 "2023-02-27T15:06:45Z")

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Hi there, I’m trying to change the colours of the backgrounds of a column layout so that I can create a nice matrix design with brand colour coded boxes for various information within an email template. I can alter the strip background which colours all three columns but not individually. This seems like such a simple customisation but I cannot find a way to do it. Any help would be gratefully recevied, I’m on a tight deadline to turn around the design. 😊

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**Author:** ![PamCotton](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/pamcotton/32/47916_2.png) [@PamCotton](https://community.hubspot.com/u/PamCotton)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2023, 11:23pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/customising-column-backgrounds/76057/2 "2023-02-27T23:23:58Z")

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Hello @LHill10, Happy Monday!

Thank you for posting in our Community! I want to invite our top experts to this conversation to share their thoughts, @mike-ward @JuanGomez0818 @Bryantworks any recommendations to @LHill10 matter?

Thank you,

Pam

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**Author:** ![JuanGomez0818](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/juangomez0818/32/79167_2.png) [@JuanGomez0818](https://community.hubspot.com/u/JuanGomez0818)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2023, 6:12pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/customising-column-backgrounds/76057/3 "2023-02-28T18:12:19Z")

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Hey @LHill10, checking I found some workaround about it:

 ![JuanGomez0818_0-1677607559489.png](https://d2qpr2jzcazej7.cloudfront.net/original/3X/5/8/589e4af02e1d90344d40d9b1430cd2603b8d6019.png)

I add a custom code in the text field and set the background color with HTML, like this:

 ![JuanGomez0818_1-1677607673872.png](https://d2qpr2jzcazej7.cloudfront.net/original/3X/4/0/40f91fab8df8ff96ee8855f64e522b12b1382c5c.png)

For this you need to go to the option “More” in the text bar and select “source code” then you can add a new \<div style=“”\> to set the background color.  
Add here the code:

`<div style="background-color: #fff; padding: 20px;"> Inside this add the rest of the code by default.</div>`

I hope works for you, regards.✌

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**Author:** ![Niharika](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/niharika/32/30293_2.png) [@Niharika](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Niharika)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2023, 6:21am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/customising-column-backgrounds/76057/4 "2023-03-01T06:21:43Z")

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Hi @LHill10

Trust you are doing great.

It would be great if you can share the code of these three column so that I can help accordingly.

Thanks

Niharika Goyal

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**Author:** ![MCoordinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ad7895/32.png) [@MCoordinator](https://community.hubspot.com/u/MCoordinator)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2024, 12:09am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/customising-column-backgrounds/76057/5 "2024-10-23T00:09:30Z")

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Hi, I am trying to change the background colour of a rich text module for a landing page. If I change the section background colour, it changes the whole page. How can I do this here?

 ![MCoordinator_1-1729642149733.jpg](https://d2qpr2jzcazej7.cloudfront.net/original/3X/2/5/25fa0b5e4ce41d49744cfb2d9d7c3753de188819.jpeg)