# Help with Marketing email - please :)

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/help-with-marketing-email-please/68313>\
**Category:** Email Marketing Tool\
**Created:** [November 1, 2022, 3:27pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/help-with-marketing-email-please/68313 "2022-11-01T15:27:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![SElvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@SElvin](https://community.hubspot.com/u/SElvin)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2022, 3:27pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/help-with-marketing-email-please/68313/1 "2022-11-01T15:27:36Z")

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I am trying to create an e-shot, I have done this regularly but I am now running into an issue… Does anyone know how to change the background colour of a text box? I can change the whole email background but I am struggling to just change the text box element. Can anyone offer me any help…

Thanks in advance 🙂

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**Author:** ![TitiCuisset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@TitiCuisset](https://community.hubspot.com/u/TitiCuisset)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2022, 9:29am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/help-with-marketing-email-please/68313/2 "2022-11-02T09:29:35Z")

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Hi @SElvin

Thank you for reaching out.

I want to tag some of our experts here - @Oezcan @JBeatty @BarryGrennan do you have any tips and suggestions for @SElvin on this?

Thank you!

Best

Tiphaine

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**Author:** ![Oezcan](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/oezcan/32/53959_2.png) [@Oezcan](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Oezcan)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2022, 9:56am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/help-with-marketing-email-please/68313/3 "2022-11-02T09:56:48Z")

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Hello @SElvin and Hello [@TitiCuisset](https://community.hubspot.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/89150) ,

usually a background-color on the element surrounding your text is enough.

For example \<p\>Text\</p\>

or  
\<span\>Text\</span\>

And there you can use inline styling.

So example:

\<p style=“background-color: red”\>

or you use classes that you assign to your respective element.

example:

.yourClass {  
background-color: red;  
}

\<p class=“yourClass”\>Text\</p\>

What can also help you with email is this page:

> **[MJML - The Responsive Email Framework](https://mjml.io/)**
>
> The only framework that makes responsive email easy. MJML is a markup language designed to reduce the pain of coding a responsive email.

I hope I could help you.

Best regards  
Özcan