Moved and edited contents of Underlining_With_TextBackgrounds
{{todo|Add more examples of usage of textbackgrounds.}}
Pages, paragraphs, words can have a backgroundcolor or frame. ConTeXt creates these using [[MetaPost]]. (See, eventually, the [[manual: color details.pdf| details]] manual or screenthe {{src|anch-bck.mkvi|source}} for further explanations.)
== Example: multi-page backgrounded text ==
Perhaps one might like to offset examples from the running text, or signal to the reader that the following paragraphs contain secondary, detailed information that is of interest only to the specialists. This can be achieved using textbackgroundstextbackground.
In contrast, [[Framed]] creates text blocks that do not span columns or pages.
In the following example, we also reduce the textwidth and bodyfont size.