Feature request: option to display border and background around sections

[BBE-FR]

Section are a very powerful way to create dashboard.

It could become even more versatile with some customizing possibilities, like the capability to define, at section level, if a border or background should be displayed around the whole section itself.

Either with the "simple" option, in each section, to have have 2 selectors to display or hide both:

• a border
• a background
  Or even a color pickup option to define in the interface the border/ background color.

At section level, this could allow even very basic user to visually group cards within a section.
This would be fully compatible with the grid design, and would preserve the capability to use or not this feature depending the cases.

Currently the "grouping" effect of section is only visually ensured by enlarged spacing between section. Background / Border could make it more obvious.

Section edit could be enriched with these options.

[BBE-FR]

This would allow even basic user to group cards in a very simple way, and using header cards and buttons create very efficients sort of "new card", without the need to some custom vertical-stack-in-cards or stack-in-cards:

[awilsonhass]

I do this with card-mod, but extremely agree this should be native. It’s much too difficult as it stands.

[ndom91]

Can you share more? I'm having trouble targetting the grid section itself with card-mod 🤔

[BBE-FR]

The code was shared here: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/wth-i-cant-specify-a-background-color-per-section/803363

It is using a custom mod card, not modding the section itself.

I do personally almost the same with a vertical-stack-in-card, that does not require full YAML for user less confident with YAML.

But the aim of this FR for me is to get rid of custom components to be able to perform it...

[ndom91]

Great, thanks a lot

[nagtegaal]

Wouldn't introducing the style: attribute to the yaml be better and more flexible?
IMO this should be available in all cards, sections, pages and so on... This would make card-mod redundant and makes things more flexible, consistent and easier to personalize/theme.