Rectangle

As it arrives — outlined and unfilled — and with a fill instead. Either can be set to Transparent.

A rectangle is decoration: it gives a screen visible structure by boxing a related group of controls or ruling off a zone. It reads no tags and writes nothing.

It arrives outlined and unfilled, because the common use is boxing controls that are already there, where a fill would cover them. Both fill and outline accept Transparent.

Adding the control

1. Open the document and select the screen you want from the screen tabs.
2. In the control palette, press Rectangle and drag it onto the canvas.
3. Size it around the controls it groups. To put it behind them, drag it down in the Layers panel.

Properties

Property	Description	Default
Fill	Interior color, or Transparent.	transparent
Outline	Border color, or Transparent.	muted content
Outline width	Border thickness in pixels.	2
Corner radius	Rounding of the corners.	6

Presses pass through

A shape never intercepts a press. A filled panel drawn across a row of buttons cannot swallow their taps, whatever the layer order.

Related

• Ellipse — the same, with a curved outline.
• Line — a rule rather than an enclosure.
• Label — a border on the label itself keeps its spacing exact and moves with it.