How do I change the List background color?
Asked by Fabio Trastamara:

In trello, create a list: how do I add color to the list background?


Answers:
author: Oliver S
body: Some great news! List colors and collapsible lists are coming to Trello! Check out our recent post for more details - <https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Trello-articles/Do-your-boards-have-you-feeling-the-blues-Prepare-to-spark-new/ba-p/2618194>

comments: author: Jens Z?hringer
body: Wow, great!

Finally after only 7 years, we get colors! :-)


author: Regan Music
body: Wohoo! I think that means in another 7 years we might get a native gantt-chart :D

But seriously, I'm happy for the colours and collapsible lists, cheers!


author: Patrick Honegger
body: Oh, still some developers working for Trello? Nice, I just started thinking about switching.


author: Regan Music
body: I read the following info, and find comfort in the fact that it took 138 ppl 7 years to give us colourable, collapsible lists :P  

These better be the best damn colours I've ever seen!

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* Trello's estimated annual revenue is currently $19.3M per year.[(i)](https://growjo.com/join)
* Trello's estimated revenue per employee is $140,000  

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* Trello has 138 Employees.[(i)](https://growjo.com/join)
* Trello grew their employee count by 10% last year.


author: Sam Loureiro
body: Being able to color code a ++**list**++ would be an amazing feature! Can someone make this happen?

comments: author: Michael Ihde
body: +1 for list colors and icon badges. ;-)


author: Patrick Honegger
body: +1


author: Nima
body: +1


author: sava.slepcev
body: +1


author: freshlygrazed
body: +1


author: Antonio Gutierrez
body: +1


author: Leasche_ De Beer
body: +1


author: Deborah Hall
body: + 1


author: Mike Murano
body: +1


author: Christophe Peter
body: +1


author: Richmond Sim
body: +1


author: JJ Jones
body: CSS has been around since 2012. The OP is from 2017. It's now 2023. It ain't that hard ya'll. Please fix it [@atlassian](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/62094)


author: MrEvers
body: +1


author: Sara McMichael
body: NEED.


author: Meredith Boylan
body: +1


author: Rene Zavala
body: need


author: Volodymyr Spodaryk
body: I found that there is a "Power-Up" (Trello plugins) named "List Limits" which you can set to zero, so if there is anything in that list it will be highlighted.  
In my case, I wanted to highlight "In Progress" column among all others without Chrome plugins and avoid any data sharing with other companies. And it works.

comments: author: boardtc
body: This works superbly, thanks!!


author: Ricky
body: I never would have thought of this. Thank you! And yeah, I agree. I do not mess around with thief chrome extensions. On top of a possible security risk, you're depending on something that is very likely to be discontinued.


author: Andr_Id
body: Its 2023 now - and still no colors for the list. It doesn't seem that Trello team care about clients preferences.

comments: author: Tazh Studio
body: My thoughts exactly. This is straight-up insane.


author: Alex Rodionov
body: I dunno lads. All these addons/plugins only work locally. They don't let you to set up colouring for all members of the board.

Trello seems like these limitaitons. Since its inspection adding a background to the board or changing colour and theme was something of very luxury desire. Can't believe after so many years, we still don't have simple colouring for lists.

comments: author: David Naylor
body: I know right? I have been asking for this for years now. It seems so obvious.


author: freshlygrazed
body: Okay, so while we're still waiting for Atlassian to NOT build out this simple useful feature (sigh)..

I did find an alternative solution that looks pretty clean. Essentially you find a coloured emoji ? and you add it to the beginning of the title. All the emoji's can be found at emojipedia or anywhere online (lol).

![Screen Shot 2024-02-05 at 5.37.48 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/304481i24F94032D4063FDF/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2024-02-05 at 5.37.48 PM.png")

If you want it too be bolder, you can add multiple square emoji's together ???

comments: author: Tazh Studio
body: This is actually quite a neat idea. Thank you.


author: Ruben Guerreiro
body: This might help:

<https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/list-highlighter-for-trel/haljojofdmnhcjenglgbejijfppbhmnn?hl=en>


author: Marek
body: Oh cmon, why this is still not done? Such a little but important feature. It should have been done without hesitation

comments: author: Marek
body: If someone want a little workaround, putting some colored emojis in the list title helped a bit lol


author: David Bahlatzis
body: SERIOUSLY? This has got to be one of the most basic features. How is there no ability to change color of lists? Theyre all the same color and everything just blends together.


author: Ellie Behling
body: Oh what a bummer they don't have this! This was the FIRST thing I tried to do as a brand new Trello user (but pretty seasoned Atlassian user at work so I know these Atlassian people can do anything!). I started a board for my wedding, and It just seems obvious you would want to make the lists different colors to categorize. I don't know if that's helpful to hear.


author: Junior Carvalho
body: Wow... Unbelievable! And I though of coming here, as a new user, to figure out how to do it... Little did I know they haven't even gotten there yet... :/

comments: author: Rene Zavala
body: agree


author: Tazh Studio
body: Ah come one lads, why are you worrying about this?! Come outside and play instead, like we at trello do! ???

comments: author: Sara McMichael
body: Is this really the answer from Trello?


author: JJ Jones
body: [@LeoAtlassian](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/366804) [@atlassiahn](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1402836) [@atlassian-qe](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2515515)

Any Atlassian team member want to chime in on why we are being ignored?

comments: author: JJ Jones
body: ![mcfly.gif](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/295024iFAE3AF5CF8A87850/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "mcfly.gif")


author: Honna Veerkamp
body: I came here looking for this feature too. It seems like it would be pretty simple. Please add. Thanks.


author: Wessel de Vries
body: This also, including a lot of other enhancements:

<https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/trello-cards-optimizer/ipbjjbpopodbnjbjnneakhcppdocpelg>  


author: Torben_trello
body: It's not a native feature, but there are some 3rd party solutions that might help: <https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/card-colors-for-trello/nodlpencjjlohojddhflnahnfpfanbjm?hl=en>

comments: author: stucampbell
body: I use the Trello app on Windows, so I can't use Chrome extensions. Please can you enable custom list colours?


author: Mrs_ Wise
body: To use Chrome extensions you would need to be using the chrome browser.


author: Jeff Tillett
body: [@Torben_trello](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1124444) ,

Is there a public board for Trello backlog items like we have for Jira? Would be good to share with the OP how they can officially send in a feature request rather than posting here. :)


author: Mark Anderson
body: We're using lists for different projects to manage workload. So, not always the standard Kanban usage. Being able to change the list color for all users with a Power-Up would be helpful, so we can assign a priority by color.

Also, our company frowns on browser extensions for security reasons.


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