Hello, Sorry, just another overlapping case I should have put in the preceding mail: when a float cuts the backgrounded stuff, the float is backgrounded too. Maybe harder to fix. An example showing both cases (footnote + float): \definecolor[ScreenGray][s=.95] \definetextbackground[grayback] [background=color, backgroundcolor=ScreenGray, frame=on, strut=yes, width=broad, location=paragraph, framecolor=ScreenGray, leftoffset=\topskipgap, before=\blank, after=\blank, align=right] \starttext A footnote\footnote{Covered by the background, right?}. \input tufte \input tufte \input tufte \input tufte \starttextbackground[grayback] \input tufte \stoptextbackground \placefigure[top]{joke}{\framed[width=5cm]{Hi}} \stoptext Regards, BG