diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/groups_projects/components/filtered_search_and_sort.vue b/app/assets/javascripts/groups_projects/components/filtered_search_and_sort.vue
index a374e916cf5e0ab85f6a976f4ec85b7729692526..0777834134ef778a65d859efbb48cc80f4c7f8ce 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/groups_projects/components/filtered_search_and_sort.vue
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/groups_projects/components/filtered_search_and_sort.vue
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ export default {
 </script>
 
 <template>
-  <div class="gl-border-t gl-border-b gl-bg-gray-10 gl-p-5">
+  <div class="gl-border-t gl-bg-subtle gl-p-5">
     <div class="gl-flex gl-flex-col gl-gap-3 md:gl-flex-row">
       <div class="gl-grow">
         <filtered-search-bar
diff --git a/app/assets/stylesheets/pages/groups.scss b/app/assets/stylesheets/pages/groups.scss
index 194ded2fcc142d67ab425713c47a1c93470199ef..c8c621ab48dbfb6fe857c21df9bde6379ec81f40 100644
--- a/app/assets/stylesheets/pages/groups.scss
+++ b/app/assets/stylesheets/pages/groups.scss
@@ -38,12 +38,6 @@
   }
 }
 
-.groups-list-tree-container {
-  > .group-list-tree > .group-row.has-children:first-child {
-    border-top: 0;
-  }
-}
-
 .group-list-tree {
   .folder-toggle-wrap {
     font-size: 0;