footnotes background color

Question

In the usual Latex document classes, is there a simple way to have a background colour behind the footnotes only? It would probably help the reader in the organization of a page between main text and footnotes.

Answer 1

I have not tried this yet, but I can imagine that the colorbox environment from the standard color package might work for this. Use this in your preamble:

\usepackage{color}

And create your footnote like this:

\footnote{\colorbox{declared-color}{text}}