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Surface

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Overview

Surfaces are content containers with a color palette which provide a theme (i.e. a background color as well as accessible font colors) to their child elements. Use surface only when other containers like card or accordion are inappropriate.

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Surface is used to provide a theme to children

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When to use

  • When you want a styled background that fits well into RHDS' theming system.
  • When you want to provide theming tokens to elements without using a styled container.

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