UE5 ComboBox how to hide background

[goodriver]

How does the ComboBox in the UE5 control behave like UE4, with a transparent background？

UE4：

UE5：

[SupportiveEntity]

Hey there @goodriver! All you have to do is go to the button style, choose the styles you want to hide and then change their Draw As type to None and it will not draw them.

[goodriver]

Hello, your approach is hidden. What I want is an alpha background

[SupportiveEntity]

In the same menu, you would just go to the tint color, and reduce the Alpha if you want some transparency. The menu’s border itself is lower on the list, but you would follow the same method.

[goodriver]

Thank you for your reply. What I need is Alpha in the options.

[SupportiveEntity]

Ahhhhh I see where the issue is. It doesn’t look like the style for the background are exposed outside of slate based on a post from a while back.

Font and Menu styles for ComboBox

Hi, I’m working on a prototype UMG Menu and I’ve been using Scrollbox with custom buttons for choosing my visual settings. Today, I just tried out ComboBox since I got a suggestion that it’s easier to work with. However I found that the customization options for Combobox are very limited. There is no option for changing the font size or style or alignment. Similarly, there is no option for setting a texture for the dropdown menu instead of the plain black background. Is there any chance you guys…

It doesn’t look like that’s changed since then. It looks like the recommendation most people use is to create a new widget type for them.

[goodriver]

Have this bugs been fixed?

[Anthony_Attwood]

No, I’m still stuck on this issue.

Update

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fhow-to-remove-dark-background-from-combobox-drop-menu-v0-14v29d3b193d1.png%3Fwidth%3D469%26format%3Dpng%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D3dd8c62c777b1f26d473971cb8bfea9cf8ade2fa

Edit the menu border brush under ‘style’ and set ‘draw as’ to none. This gives you a completely transparent dropdown box menu background. I didn’t realise the background was a thick border line. It looked filled in so I was looking eveywhere for ‘background’ colour.

[GiantKrab]

While this solution seems to work in older versions (I’ve seen a video of a person using these steps to get rid of the grey background in 5.4) , in 5.6 this yields no result - the background of the menu is still gray. Any Item styling AS WELL as custom styles for menu borders goes on top of that. Several comments on that video from people using 5.6 confirmed this unfortunate truth.

P.S. Here’s the 5.4 video: https://youtu.be/nc8js3LJ6wE?si=Ei5W8GdSsDus-uU7