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Opacity in the DevExpress Design System

The DevExpress Design System defines opacity styles as a standardized transparency scale in 5% increments from 0 (fully transparent) to 100 (fully opaque). This scale allows you to layer surfaces with a predictable visual hierarchy, apply states, blend foreground and background colors, and support adaptive theming.

Important

Applicable to DevExpress Blazor suite only.

The opacity scale corresponds to a group of base CSS variables shared by all DevExpress themes (no theme-level overrides).

The following section lists all available CSS variables and their associated values:

CSS Variables

CSS Variable Value Preview
--dxds-opacity-0 0
--dxds-opacity-5 0.05
--dxds-opacity-10 0.1
--dxds-opacity-15 0.15
--dxds-opacity-20 0.2
--dxds-opacity-25 0.25
--dxds-opacity-30 0.3
--dxds-opacity-35 0.35
--dxds-opacity-40 0.4
--dxds-opacity-45 0.45
--dxds-opacity-50 0.5
--dxds-opacity-55 0.55
--dxds-opacity-60 0.6
--dxds-opacity-65 0.65
--dxds-opacity-70 0.7
--dxds-opacity-75 0.75
--dxds-opacity-80 0.8
--dxds-opacity-85 0.85
--dxds-opacity-90 0.9
--dxds-opacity-95 0.95
--dxds-opacity-100 1