Change background of rectangle without inner elements

I have concatenated rectangles like so:

usetikzlibraryfit, positioning begintikzpicture node [rectangle, draw, text width=4em, fill=white] (b) B; node [rectangle, draw, text width=4em, right=of b, fill=white] (a) A; node [rectangle, draw, fit=(b) (a), fill=orange, fill opacity=0.1] (local) ; endtikzpicture

The result of the above is this:

enter image description here

My problem is that I do not want inner boxes A & B to have the orange background (i.e. they should not be coloured..). How can I fix this please? (still new to Tikz!)

Welcome to TeX.SE! Does adding fill=white to the inner nodes do what you want? node [rectangle, draw,text width=4em,fill=white] (b) B; and then fill the big node on the background layer.
– marmot
Sep 3 at 17:32

fill=white

node [rectangle, draw,text width=4em,fill=white] (b) B;

Thank you, no it does not work. I think because the last fill is overriding previous ones.. I have updated my code above to reflect this..
– ojenn
Sep 3 at 17:34

1 Answer
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Too long for a comment.

documentclass[tikz,border=3.14mm]standalone begindocument usetikzlibraryfit, positioning,backgrounds begintikzpicture node [rectangle, draw,text width=4em,fill=white] (b) B; node [rectangle, draw,text width=4em, right=of b,fill=white] (a) A; beginscope[on background layer] node [rectangle, draw, fit=(b) (a),fill=orange,fill opacity=0.1] (local) ; endscope endtikzpicture enddocument

enter image description here

Of course. It was just asking me to wait..
– ojenn
Sep 3 at 17:54

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