[Chartjs]-Chart.js: How to change the x-Axes background color?

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You can use a custom inline plugin for this:

var options = {
  type: 'bar',
  data: {
    labels: ["Red", "Blue", "Yellow", "Green", "Purple", "Orange"],
    datasets: [{
        label: '# of Votes',
        data: [12, 19, 3, 5, 2, 3],
        backgroundColor: 'red'
      },
      {
        label: '# of Points',
        data: [7, 11, 5, 8, 3, 7],
        backgroundColor: 'blue'
      }
    ]
  },
  options: {
    plugins: {
      scaleBackgroundColor: {
        color: 'yellow'
      }
    }
  },
  plugins: [{
    id: 'scaleBackgroundColor',
    beforeDraw: (chart, args, opts) => {
      const {
        ctx,
        canvas,
        chartArea: {
          left,
          bottom,
          width,
        }
      } = chart;

      ctx.beginPath();
      ctx.rect(left, bottom, width, (canvas.height - bottom));
      ctx.fillStyle = opts.color || 'white'
      ctx.fill();
    }
  }]
}

var ctx = document.getElementById('chartJSContainer').getContext('2d');
new Chart(ctx, options);
<body>
  <canvas id="chartJSContainer" width="600" height="400"></canvas>
  <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/Chart.js/3.4.1/chart.js"></script>
</body>

Edit:
You can also use the backgroundColor option in the axis settings:

var options = {
  type: 'bar',
  data: {
    labels: ["Red", "Blue", "Yellow", "Green", "Purple", "Orange"],
    datasets: [{
        label: '# of Votes',
        data: [12, 19, 3, 5, 2, 3],
        backgroundColor: 'red'
      },
      {
        label: '# of Points',
        data: [7, 11, 5, 8, 3, 7],
        backgroundColor: 'blue'
      }
    ]
  },
  options: {
    scales: {
      x: {
        backgroundColor: 'yellow'
      }
    }
  },
}

var ctx = document.getElementById('chartJSContainer').getContext('2d');
new Chart(ctx, options);
<body>
  <canvas id="chartJSContainer" width="600" height="400"></canvas>
  <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/Chart.js/3.4.1/chart.js"></script>
</body>

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