textual/docs/styles/opacity.md

Opacity

The opacity property sets the opacity/transparency of a widget.

Syntax

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The opacity of a widget can be set as a <number> or a <percentage>. 0/0% means no opacity, which is equivalent to full transparency. Conversely, 1/100% means full opacity, which is equivalent to no transparency. Values outside of these ranges will be clamped.

Example

This example shows, from top to bottom, increasing opacity values for a label with a border and some text. When the opacity is zero, all we see is the (black) background.

=== "Output"

```{.textual path="docs/examples/styles/opacity.py"}
```

=== "opacity.py"

```python
--8<-- "docs/examples/styles/opacity.py"
```

=== "opacity.css"

```sass hl_lines="2 6 10 14 18"
--8<-- "docs/examples/styles/opacity.css"
```

CSS

/* Fade the widget to 50% against its parent's background */
opacity: 50%;

Python

# Fade the widget to 50% against its parent's background
widget.styles.opacity = "50%"

See also

• text-opacity to blend the color of a widget's content with its background color.