# Paper

**In Material Design, the physical properties of paper are translated to the screen.**

The background of an application resembles the flat, opaque texture of a sheet of paper, and an application’s behavior mimics paper’s ability to be re-sized, shuffled, and bound together in multiple sheets.

## Paper

![](https://2374445323-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-M6jY7sXTmhiAIMGYw_m%2F-MAgIXnpx3G0qAuPkohe%2F-MAgK0BYAw08vSKD9UXw%2Fimage.png?alt=media\&token=078fa8de-6db8-4b2b-b2c3-d2aacaa903fd)

```
New-UDPaper -Elevation 0 -Content {} 
New-UDPaper -Elevation 1 -Content {} 
New-UDPaper -Elevation 3 -Content {}
```

## Square Paper

By default, paper will have rounded edges. You can reduce the rounding by using a square paper.

```
New-UDPaper -Square -Content {}
```

## Colored Paper

The `-Style` parameter can be used to color paper. Any valid CSS can be included in the hashtable for a style.

The following example creates paper with a red background.

```
New-UDPaper  -Content { } -Style @{ 
     backgroundColor = 'red'
}
```

**New-UDPaper**

| Name      | Type            | Description                                            | Required |
| --------- | --------------- | ------------------------------------------------------ | -------- |
| Id        | String          | The ID of the component. It defaults to a random GUID. | false    |
| Children  | ScriptBlock     | The content of this paper element.                     | false    |
| Width     | String          | The width of this paper.                               | false    |
| Height    | String          | The height of this paper.                              | false    |
| Square    | SwitchParameter | Whether this paper is square.                          | false    |
| Style     | Hashtable       | The CSS style to apply to this paper.                  | false    |
| Elevation | Int32           | The elevation of this paper.                           | false    |