Defining a background color for a paragraph style

Hello and please excuse this very basic question, but I am completely stumped.
How do I simply define a background color for a paragraph style? I cannot use a table etc. because the styles are mapped during an XML conversion. Code lines should receive a gray background box to separate them from the text.
Also, is there a way to force line breaks whithin words for a specific style? The text, formated in Courier, should just fill the space with a fixed width per character and break wherever the line ends.

With some drawbacks it's doable using two paragraph tags.
The first tag, e.g. "Line" is empty (no text), and it has a reference page graphic that's just a rectangle filled 100% with color and set to have a percentage tint so that the text will "show through" it.
"Line" is also set to have a negative space below it, e.g. -12 points.
"Code" paratag has the actual code text in it, and it's set to have a negative space above, e.g. -12 points.
I've done projects where I have multiple Line paratags differing by the number of code lines needing to be shaded, e.g. Line1, Line2, Line3.
Unfortunately there isn't a way to automatically have the line expand to the correct depth of the Code paragraph, although I believe this would probably be something that could be done as a Framescript, to run through a document and create new "line" paratags of the correct depth depending on how many Code paragraphs or lines are in the following paratag.

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Cindy

I can't test this right now, but I remember that when extracting a TOC, table title paragraphs appear out of order when mixed with main-text-flow paragraphs, because of the way that FM keeps track of table information. I'm not sure if the problem also affects paragraphs in table cells.
Colors behind text is a frequent request. It's always a good idea to post a formal feature request here: Wishform. Eventually user requested features have been known to appear in future FM releases.
HTH
Regards,
Peter
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Arnis Gubins wrote:
Cindy, I missed the fact that you're title is centred in the block. You could use a single-cell table construct to hold the contents for the title and have the title paratag set to be in the middle of the cell. (you could also colour the cell and skip colouring on the Master page).
There are always multiple ways to do things in FM, that's why it sometimes seem so hard to use...

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Hello there,
In the text that is loaded dynamically as XML (i.e. markup format) I need to specify background color for selected paragraphs.
So, I tried this: .
Alas, it has no effect.
What puzzles me even more is that declaring this attribute in span DOES work:
Lorem impsum ... 
This way it does change the background color, albeit, it is not solid background but sort of highlight of the text lines.
Although, it's not ideal, I could live with that, but still would be interested to find out: what am I missing?
After all, span can't have children, so it is a patch rather then nice solution.
So, far I couldn't find the explanation of that behavior - ignoring 'backgroundColor' attribute in the paragraph tag.
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
 xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark" >
<fx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import spark.utils.TextFlowUtil;
XML.ignoreWhitespace = false;
[Bindable]
private var txtXML:XML = <TextFlow version="2.0.0" xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/textLayout/2008" fontSize='18' >
 
<g>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,
consectetur adipiscing elit.
Quisque tempus, eros ac dignissim interdum, elit sem euismod velit,
eget laoreet urna metus nec enim.
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</TextFlow>
]]>
</fx:Script>
<s:RichText horizontalCenter="0" verticalCenter="0" width="200"
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I'm on Mac 10.6.6 Flex Hero 4.5 TLF 2.0 build 228
It's the same on Safari and FireFox
HTH,
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now i want to set background color for headers i
ex:PARTY_ID,PARTY_NAME,AGENT_ID,TYPE_LOOKUP_CODE are the headers,in excel output i want background color as blue.
Please do need full help,its urgent req.

Hello,
open the file in Excel and save it, just to ensure that Excel writes all the additional stuff it thinks is necessary.
Now change the background colour of the header and save the file again but with a different name.
Open both files in a text editor and look at the differences. That's what you need to change in your code.
Alternatively you can use packages like xml_spreadsheet or ExcelDocumentType, both write the same file format that you use in your code and you don't have to reinvent the wheel.
Regards
Marcus

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It is not the fault of NetBeans' GUI builder, JPanels are opaque by default, I mean whether you use Netbeans or not.Thank you!
I stand corrected (which is short for +"I jumped red-eyed on my feet and rushed to create an SSCCE to demonstrate that JPanels are... mmm... oh well, they are opaque by default... ;-[]"+)
NetBeans's definitely innocent then, and indeed using it would be an advantage (ctrl-click all JPanels in a form and edit the common opaque property to false) over manually coding
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