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Homepage - Lines/border around widgets

I would like lines around the widgets as I find it confusing to see where each one starts and finishes. When I use the edit homepage option the lines are good.

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Erica Hanlon shared this idea · 06 January, 2026 · Report… · Admin →

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AdminKelly Munro (Community Manager, Xero) responded · 18 May, 2026

Hi team, thanks for feeding back on my last update, it's good to hear how the contrasting has or hasn't helped solve needs for differing users.

We appreciate further context of your needs here and want you to know this is something our team have still been looking into.

We now have a piece of work underway that when released will show borders around widgets on the homepage 🙂 Though I can't give timeframes for this as yet, I'll keep you looped in on further updates for this here.

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Accepted ·

AdminKelly Munro (Community Manager, Xero) responded · 23 February, 2026

Thanks for the input and sharing your feedback here, everyone.

We know many of you asked for widget borders to help separate information. As a first step, we’ve subtly darkened the homepage background to increase contrast and make the widget boundaries clearer.

We’d love to know if this change has made the information easier for you to scan and consume. Please do let us know here 🙏🏻

Gaining Support ·

AdminPaul Hodges (Admin, Xero) responded · 21 January, 2026

Hi! Thanks for sharing your idea about how putting borders around the widgets would improve the look of the homepage for you.

We’ve reviewed your idea and now it’s up to the community to get behind and support it. Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit, so they can add their votes and comments about how they’d like to see this too!

Idea review ·

AdminKelly Munro (Community Manager, Xero) responded · 07 January, 2026

Hi 👋 your idea is being looked into by our Community team. We’ll be in touch soon to update you once your idea has been reviewed.

Did you know you can join our Xero Research panel to be involved in early testing and research? Find out more and sign up through our website ( https://www.xero.com/design/research-panel/ ) 🙂

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System responded · 06 January, 2026

Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.If you’re interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what’s coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

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Mel Cleave commented · 07 January, 2026 11:25 · Report

The screen looks very busy and is without definition.
Frames around each Widget would help to define each one.
It's very white on white.

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Andrew G commented · 07 January, 2026 04:29 · Report

Perhaps useful for the technical minded and/or Xero devs...

I've added lines around the widgets myself. You can use add-ons for your browser (if you know technically what you're doing) to override the style for Xero itself.

If you know how to do this, and want to do this as a temporary work-around, you can use the following CSS - this will fix the number of columns to 3 no matter the screen size, and will add a border around the widgets.

.dashboard-template-beta-grid { grid-template-columns: repeat(3, 1fr) !important; }
.dashboard-template-beta-widget { width: auto !important; height: auto !important; }
.dashboard-template-beta-widget--contents { height: auto !important; border: 1px solid #c0c0c0; }

I've made a raft of style changes myself to the new homepage using browser add-ons to override Xero's own style - temporary workaround until they fix everything.

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Laurie Davala commented · 06 January, 2026 16:12 · Report

The new home page format just seems to have a bunch of numbers and words all jumbled together. At the very least, please add borders around each account and/or section. I much prefer the old format.

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Vicky Crosby commented · 06 January, 2026 00:02 · Report

I don't mind the new home screen, but could the separate items have a box around them to separate the views for easier reading, it all blurs into one when your looking at numbers.

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