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Depth

Using depth can be an important design technique to highlight certain elements, give a sense of visual hierarchy and more.

Applying depth

To add depth to anything you can use the ab-container utility component. It allows you to apply depth by using certain modifiers.

Example

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Depth

Class (CSS)	Attribute (Web Component)
`ab-container--depth-none`	depth="none"
`ab-container--depth-100`	depth="100"
`ab-container--depth-200`	depth="200"
`ab-container--depth-300`	depth="300"
`ab-container--depth-400`	depth="400"
`ab-container--depth-500`	depth="500"
`ab-container--depth-500`	depth="600"

The variables

Root's has 10 depth variables.

Size	Variable	Value
None	--ab-depth-none	none
50	--ab-depth-50	0px 0px 0px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05);
100	--ab-depth-100	0px 1px 2px 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);
200	--ab-depth-200	0px 1px 2px 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.06), 0px 1px 3px 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.14);
300	--ab-depth-300	0px 2px 4px -1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.11), 0px 4px 6px -1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15);
400	--ab-depth-400	0px 2px 10px -1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.11), 0px 10px 15px -3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15);
500	--ab-depth-500	0px 10px 10px -5px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.11), 0px 20px 25px -5px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15);
600	--ab-depth-600	inset 0px 2px 4px 0px rgba(49, 39, 39, 0.06);
Inner	--ab-depth-inner	0px 25px 50px -12px rgba(41, 27, 27, 0.3);
Outline	--ab-depth-outline	0px 0px 0px 3px rgba(66, 153, 225, 0.5);

The border variables can be applied to the border property like this:


.my-card {
  box-shadow: var(--depth-100);
}