Text Formatting ⇒ fotter background color

[pawhan11]

Hello,
I have another problem that I can't solve

I am using fancyfoot to define my custom fotter

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\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article}


\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{   	
        a4paper,
        left=25mm,
        right=15mm,
        top=40mm,
	headheight=30mm,
        bottom=20mm,}


\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}
% fotter
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\fancyfoot[L]{ some image will \\ be here}
\fancyfoot[R]{Page no}


\begin{document}
test
\end{document}

What I get is:

What I want is:

All is good but now I need to change background color of this fotter. I only managed to change tex color but background is still white.

Is there an easy solution for that?

[Johannes_B]

Remember, a minimal working example is always helpful to understand a problem and know the basic setup. Can you extend your snippet?

[pawhan11]

Post edited, sorry for my mistake.

[Johannes_B]

There is an alternative (and pretty modern) package for headers and footers (and more) called scrlayer-scrpage. In the documentation is an exapmple for yellow headers, i changed it to gray footers. Package showframe was just added for demonstration.
This works for twosided documents as well.

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\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article}


\usepackage{showframe}
%\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage[automark,footsepline]{scrlayer-scrpage}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{      
	a4paper,
	left=25mm,
	right=15mm,
	top=40mm,
	headheight=30mm,
bottom=20mm,}


%\pagestyle{fancy}
%\fancyhf{}
%    % fotter
%\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}
%\fancyfoot[L]{ some image will \\ be here}
%\fancyfoot[R]{\thepage}
\clearscrheadfoot
\ifoot{\rule{2em}{2em}}
\ofoot{\pagemark}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\DeclareLayer[clone=scrheadings.foot.oneside,
	contents={%
		\color{lightgray}%
		\rule[-\dp\strutbox]%
		{\layerwidth}{\layerheight}%
	}%
]{scrheadings.foot.oneside.background}
\DeclareLayer[clone=scrheadings.foot.odd,
	contents={%
		\color{lightgray}%
		\rule[-\dp\strutbox]%
		{\layerwidth}{\layerheight}%
	}%
]{scrheadings.foot.odd.background}
\DeclareLayer[clone=scrheadings.foot.even,
	contents={%
		\color{lightgray}%
		\rule[-\dp\strutbox]%
		{\layerwidth}{\layerheight}%
	}%
]{scrheadings.foot.even.background}
\AddLayersAtBeginOfPageStyle{scrheadings}{%
	scrheadings.foot.oneside.background,%
	scrheadings.foot.odd.background,%
	scrheadings.foot.even.background%
}
\pagestyle{scrheadings}

\setlength{\footheight}{24pt}%
%JB: the package tells us the exact height, which is 23.60007pt

\begin{document}
test
\end{document}

[pawhan11]

thanks
Problem solved