diff --git a/packages/runtime-tests/integration/components/background-color.test.tsx b/packages/runtime-tests/integration/components/background-color.test.tsx
index 989f19e..413cff0 100644
--- a/packages/runtime-tests/integration/components/background-color.test.tsx
+++ b/packages/runtime-tests/integration/components/background-color.test.tsx
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import { defineComponent, shallowRef, nextTick } from "vue";
 import { expect, test } from "vite-plus/test";
 import { render } from "@vue-tui/testing";
 import { Box, Text } from "@vue-tui/runtime";
@@ -5,10 +6,9 @@ import { Box, Text } from "@vue-tui/runtime";
 const BG_BLUE = "\x1b[44m";
 
 test("Box backgroundColor produces ANSI background codes", async () => {
-  const { frames } = await render(
-    () => <Box backgroundColor="blue" width={5} height={1} />,
-    { columns: 10 },
-  );
+  const { frames } = await render(() => <Box backgroundColor="blue" width={5} height={1} />, {
+    columns: 10,
+  });
   expect(frames.at(-1)).toContain(BG_BLUE);
 });
 
@@ -51,3 +51,513 @@ test("wrapped text preserves backgroundColor on every line", async () => {
     expect(line).toContain(BG_BLUE);
   }
 });
+
+// --- Ink background tests ---
+
+test("Text inherits parent Box background color", async () => {
+  const { lastFrame } = await render(
+    defineComponent(() => () => (
+      <Box backgroundColor="green" alignSelf="flex-start">
+        <Text>Hello World</Text>
+      </Box>
+    )),
+    { columns: 100 },
+  );
+  expect(lastFrame()).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`"Hello World"`);
+});
+
+test("Text explicit background color overrides inherited", async () => {
+  const { lastFrame } = await render(
+    defineComponent(() => () => (
+      <Box backgroundColor="red" alignSelf="flex-start">
+        <Text backgroundColor="blue">Hello World</Text>
+      </Box>
+    )),
+    { columns: 100 },
+  );
+  expect(lastFrame()).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`"Hello World"`);
+});
+
+test("Nested Box background inheritance", async () => {
+  const { lastFrame } = await render(
+    defineComponent(() => () => (
+      <Box backgroundColor="red" alignSelf="flex-start">
+        <Box backgroundColor="blue">
+          <Text>Hello World</Text>
+        </Box>
+      </Box>
+    )),
+    { columns: 100 },
+  );
+  expect(lastFrame()).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`"Hello World"`);
+});
+
+test("Text without parent Box background has no inheritance", async () => {
+  const { lastFrame } = await render(
+    defineComponent(() => () => (
+      <Box alignSelf="flex-start">
+        <Text>Hello World</Text>
+      </Box>
+    )),
+    { columns: 100 },
+  );
+  expect(lastFrame()).toBe("Hello World");
+});
+
+test("Multiple Text elements inherit same background", async () => {
+  const { lastFrame } = await render(
+    defineComponent(() => () => (
+      <Box backgroundColor="yellow" alignSelf="flex-start">
+        <Text>Hello </Text>
+        <Text>World</Text>
+      </Box>
+    )),
+    { columns: 100 },
+  );
+  expect(lastFrame()).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
+    "Hello
+    World"
+  `);
+});
+
+test("Mixed text with and without background inheritance", async () => {
+  const { lastFrame } = await render(
+    defineComponent(() => () => (
+      <Box backgroundColor="green" alignSelf="flex-start">
+        <Text>Inherited </Text>
+        <Text backgroundColor="">No BG </Text>
+        <Text backgroundColor="red">Red BG</Text>
+      </Box>
+    )),
+    { columns: 100 },
+  );
+  expect(lastFrame()).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
+    "Inherited
+    No BG    
+    Red BG   "
+  `);
+});
+
+test("Complex nested structure with background inheritance", async () => {
+  const { lastFrame } = await render(
+    defineComponent(() => () => (
+      <Box backgroundColor="yellow" alignSelf="flex-start">
+        <Box>
+          <Text>Outer: </Text>
+          <Box backgroundColor="blue">
+            <Text>Inner: </Text>
+            <Text backgroundColor="red">Explicit</Text>
+          </Box>
+        </Box>
+      </Box>
+    )),
+    { columns: 100 },
+  );
+  expect(lastFrame()).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
+    "Outer:  
+    Inner:  
+    Explicit"
+  `);
+});
+
+test("Box background with standard color", async () => {
+  const { lastFrame } = await render(
+    defineComponent(() => () => (
+      <Box backgroundColor="red" alignSelf="flex-start">
+        <Text>Hello</Text>
+      </Box>
+    )),
+    { columns: 100 },
+  );
+  expect(lastFrame()).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`"Hello"`);
+});
+
+test("Box background with hex color", async () => {
+  const { lastFrame } = await render(
+    defineComponent(() => () => (
+      <Box backgroundColor="#FF0000" alignSelf="flex-start">
+        <Text>Hello</Text>
+      </Box>
+    )),
+    { columns: 100 },
+  );
+  expect(lastFrame()).toMatchInlineSnapshot(
+    `"Hello"`,
+  );
+});
+
+test("Box background with rgb color", async () => {
+  const { lastFrame } = await render(
+    defineComponent(() => () => (
+      <Box backgroundColor="rgb(255, 0, 0)" alignSelf="flex-start">
+        <Text>Hello</Text>
+      </Box>
+    )),
+    { columns: 100 },
+  );
+  expect(lastFrame()).toMatchInlineSnapshot(
+    `"Hello"`,
+  );
+});
+
+test("Box background with ansi256 color", async () => {
+  const { lastFrame } = await render(
+    defineComponent(() => () => (
+      <Box backgroundColor="ansi256(9)" alignSelf="flex-start">
+        <Text>Hello</Text>
+      </Box>
+    )),
+    { columns: 100 },
+  );
+  expect(lastFrame()).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`"Hello"`);
+});
+
+test("Box background with wide characters", async () => {
+  const { lastFrame } = await render(
+    defineComponent(() => () => (
+      <Box backgroundColor="yellow" alignSelf="flex-start">
+        <Text>こんにちは</Text>
+      </Box>
+    )),
+    { columns: 100 },
+  );
+  expect(lastFrame()).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`"こんにちは"`);
+});
+
+test("Box background with emojis", async () => {
+  const { lastFrame } = await render(
+    defineComponent(() => () => (
+      <Box backgroundColor="red" alignSelf="flex-start">
+        <Text>🎉🎊</Text>
+      </Box>
+    )),
+    { columns: 100 },
+  );
+  expect(lastFrame()).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`"🎉🎊"`);
+});
+
+test("Box background fills entire area with standard color", async () => {
+  const { lastFrame } = await render(
+    defineComponent(() => () => (
+      <Box backgroundColor="red" width={10} height={3} alignSelf="flex-start">
+        <Text>Hello</Text>
+      </Box>
+    )),
+    { columns: 100 },
+  );
+  expect(lastFrame()).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
+    "Hello     
+              
+              "
+  `);
+});
+
+test("Box background fills with hex color", async () => {
+  const bgHexRed = "[48;2;255;0;0m";
+  const bgReset = "[49m";
+
+  const { lastFrame } = await render(
+    defineComponent(() => () => (
+      <Box backgroundColor="#FF0000" width={10} height={3} alignSelf="flex-start">
+        <Text>Hello</Text>
+      </Box>
+    )),
+    { columns: 100 },
+  );
+  const output = lastFrame()!;
+  expect(output).toContain("Hello");
+  expect(output).toContain(bgHexRed);
+  expect(output).toContain(bgReset);
+});
+
+test("Box background fills with rgb color", async () => {
+  const bgHexRed = "[48;2;255;0;0m";
+  const bgReset = "[49m";
+
+  const { lastFrame } = await render(
+    defineComponent(() => () => (
+      <Box backgroundColor="rgb(255, 0, 0)" width={10} height={3} alignSelf="flex-start">
+        <Text>Hello</Text>
+      </Box>
+    )),
+    { columns: 100 },
+  );
+  const output = lastFrame()!;
+  expect(output).toContain("Hello");
+  expect(output).toContain(bgHexRed);
+  expect(output).toContain(bgReset);
+});
+
+test("Box background fills with ansi256 color", async () => {
+  const bgAnsi256Nine = "[48;5;9m";
+  const bgReset = "[49m";
+
+  const { lastFrame } = await render(
+    defineComponent(() => () => (
+      <Box backgroundColor="ansi256(9)" width={10} height={3} alignSelf="flex-start">
+        <Text>Hello</Text>
+      </Box>
+    )),
+    { columns: 100 },
+  );
+  const output = lastFrame()!;
+  expect(output).toContain("Hello");
+  expect(output).toContain(bgAnsi256Nine);
+  expect(output).toContain(bgReset);
+});
+
+test("Box background with border fills content area", async () => {
+  const { lastFrame } = await render(
+    defineComponent(() => () => (
+      <Box backgroundColor="cyan" borderStyle="round" width={10} height={5} alignSelf="flex-start">
+        <Text>Hi</Text>
+      </Box>
+    )),
+    { columns: 100 },
+  );
+  expect(lastFrame()).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
+    "╭────────╮
+    │Hi      │
+    │        │
+    │        │
+    ╰────────╯"
+  `);
+});
+
+test("Box background with padding fills entire padded area", async () => {
+  const { lastFrame } = await render(
+    defineComponent(() => () => (
+      <Box backgroundColor="magenta" padding={1} width={10} height={5} alignSelf="flex-start">
+        <Text>Hi</Text>
+      </Box>
+    )),
+    { columns: 100 },
+  );
+  expect(lastFrame()).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
+    "          
+     Hi       
+              
+              
+              "
+  `);
+});
+
+test("Box background with center alignment fills entire area", async () => {
+  const { lastFrame } = await render(
+    defineComponent(() => () => (
+      <Box
+        backgroundColor="blue"
+        width={10}
+        height={3}
+        justifyContent="center"
+        alignSelf="flex-start"
+      >
+        <Text>Hi</Text>
+      </Box>
+    )),
+    { columns: 100 },
+  );
+  expect(lastFrame()).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
+    "          
+    Hi        
+              "
+  `);
+});
+
+test("Box background with column layout fills entire area", async () => {
+  const { lastFrame } = await render(
+    defineComponent(() => () => (
+      <Box
+        backgroundColor="green"
+        flexDirection="column"
+        width={10}
+        height={5}
+        alignSelf="flex-start"
+      >
+        <Text>Line 1</Text>
+        <Text>Line 2</Text>
+      </Box>
+    )),
+    { columns: 100 },
+  );
+  expect(lastFrame()).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
+    "Line 1    
+    Line 2    
+              
+              
+              "
+  `);
+});
+
+test("Box background updates on rerender", async () => {
+  const bgColor = shallowRef<string | undefined>(undefined);
+
+  const { lastFrame } = await render(
+    defineComponent(() => () => (
+      <Box backgroundColor={bgColor.value} alignSelf="flex-start">
+        <Text>Hello</Text>
+      </Box>
+    )),
+    { columns: 100 },
+  );
+
+  expect(lastFrame()).toBe("Hello");
+
+  bgColor.value = "green";
+  await nextTick();
+  expect(lastFrame()).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`"Hello"`);
+
+  bgColor.value = undefined;
+  await nextTick();
+  expect(lastFrame()).toBe("Hello");
+});
+
+test("Box backgroundColor fills full width on every line when text wraps", async () => {
+  const { lastFrame } = await render(
+    defineComponent(() => () => (
+      <Box backgroundColor="red" width={10} alignSelf="flex-start">
+        <Text>Hello World!!</Text>
+      </Box>
+    )),
+    { columns: 100 },
+  );
+  expect(lastFrame()).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
+    "Hello     
+    World!!   "
+  `);
+});
+
+test("Text-only backgroundColor colors text content but does not fill Box width", async () => {
+  const { lastFrame } = await render(
+    defineComponent(() => () => (
+      <Box width={10} alignSelf="flex-start">
+        <Text backgroundColor="red">Hello World!!</Text>
+      </Box>
+    )),
+    { columns: 100 },
+  );
+  expect(lastFrame()).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
+    "Hello
+    World!!"
+  `);
+});
+
+// --- Ink border-backgrounds tests ---
+
+test("border with background color", async () => {
+  const { lastFrame } = await render(
+    defineComponent(() => () => (
+      <Box borderStyle="single" borderColor="white" borderBackgroundColor="blue">
+        <Box width={4}>
+          <Text>Test</Text>
+        </Box>
+      </Box>
+    )),
+    { columns: 100 },
+  );
+  const output = lastFrame()!;
+  expect(output).toContain("┌");
+  expect(output).toContain("┐");
+  expect(output).toContain("└");
+  expect(output).toContain("┘");
+  expect(output).toContain("Test");
+  // Named blue background => ESC[44m
+  expect(output).toContain("[44m");
+});
+
+test("border with different background colors per side", async () => {
+  const { lastFrame } = await render(
+    defineComponent(() => () => (
+      <Box
+        borderStyle="single"
+        borderTopBackgroundColor="red"
+        borderBottomBackgroundColor="blue"
+        borderLeftBackgroundColor="green"
+        borderRightBackgroundColor="yellow"
+      >
+        <Box width={4}>
+          <Text>Test</Text>
+        </Box>
+      </Box>
+    )),
+    { columns: 100 },
+  );
+  const output = lastFrame()!;
+  expect(output).toContain("┌");
+  expect(output).toContain("┐");
+  expect(output).toContain("└");
+  expect(output).toContain("┘");
+  expect(output).toContain("Test");
+  // red => 41, green => 42, yellow => 43, blue => 44
+  expect(output).toContain("[41m");
+  expect(output).toContain("[42m");
+  expect(output).toContain("[43m");
+  expect(output).toContain("[44m");
+});
+
+test("border background color fallback to general borderBackgroundColor", async () => {
+  const { lastFrame } = await render(
+    defineComponent(() => () => (
+      <Box borderStyle="single" borderBackgroundColor="magenta" borderTopBackgroundColor="cyan">
+        <Box width={4}>
+          <Text>Test</Text>
+        </Box>
+      </Box>
+    )),
+    { columns: 100 },
+  );
+  const output = lastFrame()!;
+  expect(output).toContain("┌");
+  expect(output).toContain("┐");
+  expect(output).toContain("└");
+  expect(output).toContain("┘");
+  expect(output).toContain("Test");
+  // cyan => 46, magenta => 45
+  expect(output).toContain("[46m");
+  expect(output).toContain("[45m");
+});
+
+test("vertical border background does not bleed into content rows", async () => {
+  const { lastFrame } = await render(
+    defineComponent(() => () => (
+      <Box borderStyle="classic" borderBackgroundColor="cyan" alignSelf="flex-start" width={12}>
+        <Text>Text longer than the Box width, so will definitely wrap.</Text>
+      </Box>
+    )),
+    { columns: 100 },
+  );
+  const output = lastFrame()!;
+  const bgCyanPattern = "\\[46m";
+  const bgResetPattern = "\\[49m";
+  const tableBorderChar = "|";
+  const tableBorderPattern = bgCyanPattern + tableBorderChar + bgResetPattern;
+  const contentRowPattern = new RegExp(`^${tableBorderPattern}.*${tableBorderPattern}$`);
+
+  const tableRows = output.split("\n");
+  const contentRows = tableRows.slice(1, -1);
+  for (const contentRow of contentRows) {
+    expect(contentRow).toMatch(contentRowPattern);
+  }
+});
+
+test("foreground, background and dim combine correctly", async () => {
+  const { lastFrame } = await render(
+    defineComponent(() => () => (
+      <Box
+        borderTopDimColor
+        borderStyle="single"
+        borderTopColor="red"
+        borderTopBackgroundColor="cyan"
+        alignSelf="flex-start"
+      >
+        <Text>Hi</Text>
+      </Box>
+    )),
+    { columns: 100 },
+  );
+  const output = lastFrame()!;
+  // red FG (31), cyan BG (46), dim (2)
+  expect(output).toContain("[31m");
+  expect(output).toContain("[46m");
+  expect(output).toContain("[2m");
+});