# Problem with opaque rootContainer

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/problem-with-opaque-rootcontainer/11788>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [June 8, 2016, 8:33am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/problem-with-opaque-rootcontainer/11788 "2016-06-08T08:33:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![bill.diblasi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8baadc/32.png) [@bill.diblasi](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bill.diblasi)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2018, 7:13pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/problem-with-opaque-rootcontainer/11788/4 "2018-06-01T19:13:20Z")

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Hi, was this solved? I’ve seen in [other posts](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/modal-windows/651/3?u=bill.diblasi) that setting Opaque to 0 should make a pop-up transparent, so I’m not sure yet what I’m doing wrong.

I have a pop-up with Layer 5 over a main window with Layer 0, the pop-up Root Container has Opaque set to False, and the Background Color alpha value is zero. When I launch the application, the pop-up is showing a default gray color for the window itself. In Designer, when I use the color wheel to adjust transparency of the Root Container Background Color, I can see this gray default background through the transparent color.

Ultimately I would like to create a pop-up with a translucent background, but I wanted to start by understanding transparency.

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