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Anonymous
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JSON Theme Card Property for Background

Hello,

 

Does anyone knows how to set the card background default color and transparency in a new PowerBI Theme?

 

Thank you

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v-yulgu-msft
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

Hi @Anonymous,

 

JSON them file provides "background" and "transparency" properties allows us to set background color and transparency for a specific visual. Please refer to the sample in this article.

 

Regards,

Yuliana Gu

Community Support Team _ Yuliana Gu
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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v-yulgu-msft
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

Hi @Anonymous,

 

JSON them file provides "background" and "transparency" properties allows us to set background color and transparency for a specific visual. Please refer to the sample in this article.

 

Regards,

Yuliana Gu

Community Support Team _ Yuliana Gu
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
Anonymous
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I cannot make it work... can you show a sample snippet of the code for the card background and transparency please?


Thank you

@Anonymous here is an example that works for me

 

{
   "name": "Card-Background-Example",
   "background": "#ffffff",
   "foreground": "#000000",
   "dataColors": [
      "#8AD4EB",
      "#939498",
      "#C0504D",
      "#DB6D4B"
   ],
   "visualStyles": {
      "*": {
         "*": {
            "*": [
               {
                  "fontSize": 12,
                  "fontFamily": "Calibri",
                  "color": {
                     "solid": {}
                  }
               }
            ],
            "general": [
               {
                  "responsive": true
               }
            ]
         }
      },
      "card": {
         "*": {
            "background": [
               {
                  "show": true,
                  "color": {
                     "solid": {
                        "color": "#8AD4EB"
                     }
                  },
                  "transparency": 0
               }
            ],
            "labels": [
               {
                  "show": true,
                  "color": {
                     "solid": {
                        "color": "#ffffff"
                     }
                  },
                  "fontSize": 14,
                  "fontFamily": "Calibri"
               }
            ]
         }
      }
   }
}

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