PHPWord background color of text box

Question

I'm trying to set the background color of a text both either to a color, or to 100% transparent (whatever is easiest) but I'm struggling to achieve either.

I've tried "bgColor" as per some other elements but no luck :(

 $textbox = $section->addTextBox(
        array(
            'marginTop' => -100,
            'marginLeft' => -100,
            'posHorizontal' => 'absolute',
            'posVertical' => 'absolute',
            'align' => 'left',
            'positioning' => 'relative',
            'width'       => 200,
            'height'      => 40,
            'borderColor' => '#eeeeee',
            'borderSize'  => 0,
            'bgColor' => 'black',
        )
    );

FYI 'bgcolor' is not a correct property... use 'background-color' for instead of bgcolor... — saravanan, Mar 19 '18 at 04:59
No luck with that unfortunately, although no other properties are hyphenated? — AdrianGW, Mar 19 '18 at 05:18
Any idea did you find a solution ? Another question did Text box support border radius/ round ? — famas23, Mar 23 '21 at 14:28

Cosmo · Answer 1 · 2019-07-01T08:20:09.547

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Try this

'fillColor' => 'black'

Or

'fillColor' => '#BFBFBF'

you can find all properties in PhpWord\Style\TextBox.php

edited Jul 01 '19 at 08:20

answered Jul 01 '19 at 08:13

Cosmo

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 16 '19 at 11:49

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Does anyone how to do this, also have this issue. The documentation has not been updated in years. AddTextBox doesnt exist on docs...

'fill'      => array('color' => '#990000'),
'bgColor'      => '#990000',
'backgroundColor'      => '#990000'

None of the above work.

answered May 16 '19 at 11:49

Mark Morris

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Any idea did you find a solution ? Another question did Text box support border radius/ round ? – famas23 Mar 23 '21 at 14:28

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 22 '20 at 17:04

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For anyone looking for this answer here it goes:

There's no answer, textbox don't support any kind of background yet and looks like it wont. As this issue suggests you can achieve the same results in terms of design with a table with a single cell.

answered Aug 22 '20 at 17:04

Felipe Chagas

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does it support border radius/ round ? – famas23 Mar 23 '21 at 14:26
@famas23 I'm not sure, maybe not. I gave a quick look in the code and looks like it receives just size and color for borders. See: https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPWord/blob/develop/src/PhpWord/Style/TextBox.php – Felipe Chagas Mar 23 '21 at 15:39

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 18 '23 at 16:07

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You will need to install the latest version composer require phpoffice/phpword:dev-master to get access to bgColor property as it's not included in 1.0.

answered Jan 18 '23 at 16:07

Mr Seche

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PHPWord background color of text box

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