[dashboard] Transparent Background option not working

[kamalkeshavani-aiinside]

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Description

'Transparent background' setting does not work when using inside a tab(which is not a top level tab).

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[kamalkeshavani-aiinside]

Keeping this active

[eschutho]

cc @rusackas if interested.

[rusackas]

Interesting... I could go either way on this one. On one hand, sure, I can see the allure of tabs having a transparent background, so that the background of the dash shoes through consistently. On the other hand, the area of a tab is kind of a "widget" in a dashboard in its own right... and if you took away the white background it'd be a bit ambiguous where the tab area ends and the charts below begin.

If we want to keep the tab area opaque (which I think might make more sense than transparent, actually), perhaps we should hide/remove this control for chart rows within the tabs, since it's irrelevant unless the row is moved out. Thoughts @kasiazjc?

[kamalkeshavani-aiinside]

@rusackas Got your point. Our concern with the current behavior of tabs is that all the big number charts in a tab are almost merged in white background, but with transparent background we can make it out where a certain chart or a column/group of charts end.
I guess the best solution would be to bring in a new feature of 'Borders' to each widget in dashboard. We can set the borders to whichever bunch of elements we prefer.

I had raised it as a feature request a long time ago, #15161. Although some of them can be achieved with CSS(I think), but still it requires an extra skill to be able to personalize a dashboard. A bunch of format features in the dashboard can be considered. Just like position_json, we can have a format_json holding format settings(border, title text size, title text color, etc..) of each widget in the dashboard.

Let me know what you think and I can start a discussion for the same.

[rusackas]

Closing this as stale since it's been silent for so long, and we're trying to steer toward a more actionable Issues backlog. If people are still encountering seeing this as a bug in current versions (currently 3.x) please open a new Issue or a PR to address the problem. We're also happy to discuss deprecating/adding/redesigning these features as a Github Discussion or a SIP. Thanks!