The children will inherit the parent's opacity - I don't think there's a way to stop that.
Make the text boxes siblings of the border, and not children. <Grid> <Border x:Name="Background" Opacity="0.6" /> <Border x:Name="Content> <TextBox /> <TextBox /> </Border> </Grid> -x On 4 June 2012 13:39, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > Folks, I wanted to have a <Border> with Opacity="0.6" so that it shows a > hint of the background colour, then put some text and boxes inside. I don’t > want the controls inside to also be transparent so I put Opacity="1" on > them. However this doesn’t seem to work as I planned and the inside > controls seem to be inheriting the Border’s Opacity.**** > > ** ** > > If you can see the image below you’ll see that the text and boxes are > faded. Is there some trick I’m forgetting to prevent the children from > inheriting the parent’s Opacity? -- Greg**** > > ** ** > > **** > > _______________________________________________ > ozwpf mailing list > [email protected] > http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozwpf > >
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