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LARYSA
New Member
July 20, 2025
Question

Missing ‘Show behind transparent areas’ option in Drop shadow effect

  • July 20, 2025
  • 16 replies
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Good day!
Why was the option Show behind transparent area removed in the Drop Shadow effect?
This made the work very difficult (
 

[The title of this post was updated by a moderator from “It was good function” to “Missing ‘Show behind transparent areas’ option in Drop shadow effect” on 20-Jul-2025.]

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    ksn
    Figmate
    Community Support
    August 19, 2025

    No worries!! As of now, I can confirm this should be resolved. If anyone still notices issues, reply here again 😄

    New Member
    August 19, 2025

    No worries!! As of now, I can confirm this should be resolved. If anyone still notices issues, reply here again 😄

    The issue is still present on Figma Web & Figma Desktop App version 125.7.5. The “Show behind transparent areas” option is only visible in Effect Styles and I can’t even get it to work. 

     

    EDIT:

    It seems to have been resolved. However the “Show behind transparent areas” option doesn’t seem to be available/work on fully transparent backgrounds. I am trying to apply a ring to a ghost button using drop shadow but I cannot get it to work.

     

    ksn
    Figmate
    Community Support
    August 19, 2025

     

    No worries!! As of now, I can confirm this should be resolved. If anyone still notices issues, reply here again 😄

     

    The issue is still present on Figma Web & Figma Desktop App version 125.7.5. The “Show behind transparent areas” option is only visible in Effect Styles and I can’t even get it to work. 

     

    oop! checking in with the team who worked on this. ill edit this reply once I get another update.

    New Member
    August 19, 2025

     

    No worries!! As of now, I can confirm this should be resolved. If anyone still notices issues, reply here again 😄

     

    The issue is still present on Figma Web & Figma Desktop App version 125.7.5. The “Show behind transparent areas” option is only visible in Effect Styles and I can’t even get it to work. 

     

    oop! checking in with the team who worked on this. ill edit this reply once I get another update.

    Please check the update on my initial reply. 

    Jay Bee
    New Participant
    August 21, 2025


    Not sure if it was like this, but it seems to be bugging out when the spread is not 0.

    ksn
    Figmate
    Community Support
    August 22, 2025

    All of this is good to know -- I touched base with an engineer working on our core experience who asked if anyone here would be willing to share files that are featured in their recordings/screenshots. If that’s possible, can you reply again here? One of my fellow community support mods will be helping out moving forward.