Text Formatting ⇒ Background color in enumerate environment

[eureka]

Hi,

My purpose is to have my items in a blue background color.
I tried to use

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...
\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{color}
...
\colorbox{blue}
{ 
\being{enumerate} 
\item Hello 
\item world! 
\end{enumerate}
}, 

but I got the error message:

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! Latex error: Something's wrong -- perhaps a missing item.

What went wrong and how can I fix that?

Thanks

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Eureka,

welcome to the board!

An enumerate environment inside a colorbox works if you use \parbox or a minipage environment:

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\colorbox{blue}{%
  \parbox{.5\linewidth}{%
    \begin{enumerate}
      \item Hello
      \item world!
    \end{enumerate}%
  }%
}

Stefan

[eureka]

Perfect, thanks Stefan!

[praveen25488]

What to do if We want only items like 1. 2. and so on have a background color

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Perhaps make two enumerate lists: the first one in a colored box such as above, and the second one started at the next number (3 etc.) . That can be done using the enumitem package.

Stefan