How to color a "cell"?

[Richard Gaskin]

Thanks Mark - works. I could have sworn I'd tried "line" earlier when 
attempting to set the backgroundColor, and when it failed was when I 
switched to trying "paragraph". But it works now so I don't mind being 
mistaken.

Oddly, "paragraph" appears to be synonymous with "line" for the 
borderWidth, borderColor, firstIndent, leftIndent, textAlign, 
spaceAbove, hGrid, vGrid, and tabs paragraph properties.

Near as I can tell backgroundColor is the only paragraph properties 
where the "paragraph" chunk type isn't synonymous.

Should it be? I'm good either way now that I have a solution, but if it 
would be helpful I could file a bug report/enhancement request.

-- 
  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems


Mark Waddingham wrote:

 > IIRC you need to use ‘line’ to set ‘paragraph‘ properties of fields…
 >
 > On 23 Jun 2022, at 19:29, Richard Gaskin wrote:
 >> I could get away with setting the backgroundColor of the whole line,
 >> but that does the same as setting the backgroundColor of a "cell": it
 >> draws the color only beneath the portion of the line that contains
 >> text, leaving the rest blank.
 >>
 >> The borderWidth and borderColor paragraph properties work as
 >> expected, affecting the full line whether it's filled with text
 >> or has no text at all.