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Node Background Colour - No longer editable...?

  • November 25, 2025
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I’ve lost the ability to change the node background colour - it doesn’t appear as an option anymore.

Why has this been removed? Or has it been moved to somewhere else? Very annoying, when I’ve put together a whole mind map based on our corporate branding colours.

 

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    Robert Johnson
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    • Robert Johnson
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    • November 25, 2025

    ​@John Goodwin I honestly cannot remember what the experience was before today, and it took me a few minutes of looking in different browsers, but it looks like background colour is controlled by the opacity slider, which is a 0% by default.

    First, ensuing that a border type is selected:

     

    Then select a colour and increase opacity:

     

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    • John Goodwin
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    • November 25, 2025

    ​@John Goodwin I honestly cannot remember what the experience was before today, and it took me a few minutes of looking in different browsers, but it looks like background colour is controlled by the opacity slider, which is a 0% by default.

    Thanks, but that’s definitely not the same menu I could see last week - or can even see now. There used to be a node background colour selector, but it’s gone.

    Robert Johnson
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