Make tikz rectangle fill whole paperwidth - including margin

Question

I'm drawing a rectangle that is supposed to cover from the leftmost to the rightmost edge of each page with some centered text in it.

Here is the relevant code:

begin{tikzpicture}
     draw[fill=darkgray] (0,0) rectangle (paperwidth,3cm) node[midway] 
     {color{lightgray}{huge{Animals}}};
end{tikzpicture}

However the result is not what I expect:

How do I solve this?

js bibra · Accepted Answer

This should help you

MWE

documentclass{article}
pagestyle{empty} % Suppress page numbers
usepackage{tikz}
begin{document}
begin{tikzpicture}[font=sffamily,remember picture,overlay]
path (current page.north west) node[below right,fill=darkgray,minimum 
width=paperwidth,minimum height=3cm] (box){};

path (box.west) node[right=5mm,align=left] %<distance can be changed to suit
{{fontsize{45pt}{65pt}color{white}textbf{JS Bibra}}[2mm]
{fontsize{30pt}{20pt}color{cyan}Advisor to TEX}[2mm]
{fontsize{10pt}{10pt}color{white}LaTeX development}};

end{tikzpicture}
end{document}

EDIT

For centered text change the 5mm to any other distance from the left edge of the page for example 10cm

path (box.west) node[right=10cm,align=left]

This would give the following text alignment

EDIT2

The difference lies in the addition of the option

[font=sffamily,remember picture,overlay]

at the beginning of the tikzpicture

After adding the above option to the code of OP the box falls in place

MWE of the OP after amending option at the begining

documentclass{article}
pagestyle{empty} % Suppress page numbers
usepackage{tikz}
begin{document}
begin{tikzpicture}
[font=sffamily,remember picture,overlay]
draw (current page.north west) node[below right,fill=darkgray,minimum 
width=paperwidth,minimum height=3cm] (box){color{green}{dxczcd}};
end{tikzpicture}
end{document}

jlettvin · Answer

try noindent before begin{tikzpicture}

Ignasi · Answer

tcolorbox could be another option:
documentclass{article}
usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}
usepackage{lipsum}

begin{document}
lipsum[1]
begin{tcolorbox}[enhanced, spread sidewards, halign=center, valign=center, sharp corners, colframe=darkgray, colback=darkgray, colupper=lightgray, fontupper=hugesffamily, height=3cm ]
Animals
end{tcolorbox}
lipsum[2]
end{document}

Make tikz rectangle fill whole paperwidth - including margin

3 Answers

MWE

EDIT

EDIT2

MWE of the OP after amending option at the begining

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