{"id":468,"date":"2026-02-26T13:45:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T18:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/university-communications.ncsu.edu\/email-builder\/?post_type=reference-article&#038;p=468"},"modified":"2026-03-13T17:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T21:33:14","slug":"colored-background-block","status":"publish","type":"reference-article","link":"https:\/\/university-communications.ncsu.edu\/email-builder\/reference-article\/colored-background-block\/","title":{"rendered":"Colored Background Block"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/university-communications.ncsu.edu\/email-builder\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2025\/10\/colored-background-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Block with changing background colors, containing a heading, teaser and button.\" class=\"wp-image-356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/university-communications.ncsu.edu\/email-builder\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2025\/10\/colored-background-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/university-communications.ncsu.edu\/email-builder\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2025\/10\/colored-background-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/university-communications.ncsu.edu\/email-builder\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2025\/10\/colored-background-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/university-communications.ncsu.edu\/email-builder\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2025\/10\/colored-background.png 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Email Builder Colored Background block uses solid color to stand out and highlight specific content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Settings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To edit a block&#8217;s settings, click on it and select the &#8220;Switch to Edit&#8221; pencil icon, or open the &#8220;Settings&#8221; panel, found next to &#8220;Publish.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><strong>In this block&#8217;s settings, you can:<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Change the color<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Update the heading text<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Update the paragraph text<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Update the call-to-action text<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Add a URL<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"is-text wp-block-ncst-buttons\">\n    \n<div class=\"is-style-secondary wp-block-ncst-button\">\n      <a\n        class=\"ncst-block__button-link btn\"\n        href=\"https:\/\/live-ucomm-multisite.pantheonsite.io\/email-builder-staging\/blocks\/\"\n        data-ncst-lightbox=\"false\"\n                      >\n                  <span class=\"text\">Return to block list<\/span><span class=\"arrow-indicator\"><svg class=\"wolficon wolficon-arrow-right-bold\" role=\"img\"  aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<use xlink:href=\"#wolficon-arrow-right-bold\">\n\t\t<\/svg><\/span>\n              <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n  \n\n  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","availability":[55,54],"content-type":[64],"class_list":["post-468","reference-article","type-reference-article","status-publish","hentry","availability-template-create-your-own","availability-tier-premium","content-type-body-content"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/university-communications.ncsu.edu\/email-builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reference-article\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/university-communications.ncsu.edu\/email-builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reference-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/university-communications.ncsu.edu\/email-builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reference-article"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/university-communications.ncsu.edu\/email-builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reference-article\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":772,"href":"https:\/\/university-communications.ncsu.edu\/email-builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reference-article\/468\/revisions\/772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/university-communications.ncsu.edu\/email-builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"availability","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/university-communications.ncsu.edu\/email-builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/availability?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"content-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/university-communications.ncsu.edu\/email-builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-type?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}