CSS - Full Page Drop Shadow

The original post was asking about how to finish a CSS drop shadow for a box. However, I quickly discovered a solution after posting this comment.

The reply below is useful for creating a drop shadow for a box or image of a known height and width.

I created a drop shadow CSS code for a box of known width (though with a bit of number crunching in the CSS you can alter it to any) but of variable height.

If you want to view the code, go to http://www.wattersisere.co.uk/dev-shed/

Hello,

Quick Q:

How would I go about getting this effect (drop-shadow/rounded corners around the main container div - here are a couple examples):

http://urlgreyhot.com/personal/

http://www.fiftyfoureleven.com/sandbox/weblog/

I am aware of the tutorials found on ALA site... but those tuts do not use .png's to achieve the drop-shadow/rounded-corner effect.

Can someone point me to a nice tutorial?

I have tried viewing the CSS of above sites, but I have found it a bit confusing, and I would prefer a simplified version of the code.

Anyone feel like sharing techniques?

Thanks in advance!
Cheers
M

I really strive to stay as close to design when I get a psd from a graphic designer. Sometimes that can be a challenge such as the situation I am having now. If you look at this page

Osake Restaurant

you will see a header on the page that reads Restaurant Menu. This header is using a custom font called Lato.

I have uploaded a screenshot of the layer styles for drop shadow and gradient.
Screen Shot

Below is some code I found from a tutorial for css drop-shadow -

Code:

/* default setup that everything sees */
.shadow {
  /* needed for Internet explorer */
  height: 1em;
  filter: Shadow(Color=#666666, 
                 Direction=135, 
                 Strength=5);

  /* Needed for Gecko */
  line-height: 2em;
  white-space: nowrap;

}

/* 
 * used by browsers which know about
 * :before to create the shadow 
 */
.shadow:before {
  display: block;
  margin: 0 0 -2.12em 0.15em;
  padding: 0;
  color: #666666; 
}

#shadow_1:before { 
  content: 'In shadow'; 
}
#second_2:before { 
  content: 'Happy Shadowing!'; 
}

/*\*/
html*.shadow {

  [color:red;/* required by Safari 
              * so that [] is correctly
              * begun. associated with
              * the property, yet hiding
              * it. Seen by IE6 */

    /* 
     * seen by IE6 and Safari, but hidden
     * from Gecko 
     */
    text-shadow: #666666 5px 5px 5px; 

  ]color:auto; /* resets color for IE6 */
}/**/

/* 
 * end hack using dummy attribute selector
 * for IE5 mac
 */
.dummyend[id]{clear: both;}

/*\*/
html*.shadow:before {

  [color:red;/* required by Safari. 
                seen by IE6 */

    /* 
     * seen by IE6 and Safari, but hidden
     * from Gecko 
     */
    display: none;

  ]color:auto; /* resets color for IE6 */
}/**/

/* 
 * end hack using dummy attribute selector
 * for IE5 mac
 */
.dummyend[id]{clear: both;}

My question is how do I go from those settings in PSD to a equivalent look in HTML w/ CSS. Do I just play around with it or is there a more precise way.

Also what about for gradient. Hopefully others can learn from this thread as well. Thanks! Tom

I am using this:
http://alistapart.com/articles/cssdropshadows/

for use on a gallery. Each image it is applied to is in a table cell. However, because its floated left, it floats to the left of the table cell even though I have cent the text-align to center

How do I apply a css drop shadow around the search widget generated by this script code?
Code:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://cdn.widgetserver.com/syndication/subscriber/InsertWidget.js"></script><script type="text/javascript">if (WIDGETBOX) WIDGETBOX.renderWidget('dfacd65d-6514-4845-ad81-7249d33a6280');</script>
<noscript>Get the <a href="http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/college-search">College search</a> widget and many other <a href="http://www.widgetbox.com/">great free widgets</a> at <a href="http://www.widgetbox.com">Widgetbox</a>! Not seeing a widget? (<a href="http://support.widgetbox.com/">More info</a>)</noscript>

(-:

I am looking for some examples on making this layout:

----------HEADER----------
nav content
- -
- -
- -
-
-
-
-
-
-
----------FOOTER0---------

The page needs to be 100% the height of the browser window with header at top, footer at bottom and the content/nav being a minimum height of enough to fill the screen vertically and should be expandable. Anyone got any pointers?

I'm wanting to extend a div all the way to the bottom of the page to give the effect of a white column. How can I make it extend all the way to the bottom if the content is too short to make it do this?

The example is at http://www.wattersisere.co.uk/devshed.

Thanks,

Watters

I have 2 div columns on a web page, they are positioned using css... the right column is taller than the left column, but the left column does not expand to the full height of the right column... I require this, because the left column has a background color that I want to go right to the bottom of the page.

I have
height: 100%;
in the css style for the left column, but that only makes it 1 screen high... does anyone know of a way to make it the full height of the other column, ie stretch?
I have tried height: auto; but that doesnt work either.

Hello,

In CSS is there a way to tell an object to extend the full height and width of its parameters without specifying height and using absolute positioning?

Thanks,

Andy

Hey

I am developing a site for our band, and I'm having trouble getting the nav bar to look right. The page is http://www.mattbray.curvedspaces.co..._beta/index.php and I don't want the left hand section to stop halfway down the page. The stylesheet is called style.css in the same directory.

Code:

/* page defaults */
body {
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
	text-align:center;
	font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	background-color: #EAEAEA;
}

/* Layout divs */
#container {
	font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	color: #666666;
	position: static;
	left: 40px;
	top: 12px;
	padding: 0px;
	width: 800px;
	border-right: #003366 1px solid;
	border-left: #003366 1px solid;
	margin-right: auto;
	margin-left: auto;
	height: auto;
	text-align:left;
	background-color: #FFFFFF;
}
#title {
	background-image: url(images/saved_title.gif);
	margin-top: 10px;
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	height: 150px;
	border-top-color: #000000;
	border-top-style: solid;
	border-top-width: 1px;
	border-bottom-color: #000000;
	border-bottom-style: solid;
	border-bottom-width: 1px;
	border-color: #000000;
}
#navbar {
	background-image: url(images/navbar.gif);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	border-bottom-color: #000000;
	border-bottom-style: solid;
	border-bottom-width: 1px;
	padding: 5px;
	height: 20px;
	font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
#navwin {
	font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	border-right: 1px solid black;
	padding: 5px;
	background-color: #CCCFFF;
	width: 230px;
	height: 100%;
	margin: 0;
	float: left;
	font-size: medium;
}
#content {
	float: left;
	font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	padding: 10px;
	padding-top: 40px;
	background-image: url(images/content.gif);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	background-position: -239px 0px;
	background-color: #FFFFFF;
	height: auto;
	width: 539px;
}
#footer {
	font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	background-color: #CCCCCC;
	margin-bottom: 10px;
	padding: 10px;
	border-top: solid 1px black;
	border-bottom: solid 1px black;
	width: 780px;
	height: 25px;
	text-align: center;
}

/* Links */
a:link {
	color: #006699;
}
a:visited {
	color: #006699;
}
a:hover {
	color: #006699;
	text-decoration: none;
}
a:active {
	color: #006699;
}

/* elements */
#navwin h2 {
	font-size: large;
	display: block;
}

#navwin ul {}

thanks

Matt

Thanks for taking the time to read my question.

I have a box in which I have text. I would like to make that box look like it has a shadow to the bottom right.

I can't seem to figure out how to do that with my CSS.

here is the <div> and my CSS


Code:

<body>
<div id="MainContainer">
<div id="Title">Landmark Feeds - Links to Standard Operating Procedures</div>
	<hr />
	<div class="dtree">
		<p id="TreeLinks"><span><a class="QuickLink" href="javascript:%20d.openAll();">Open All Folders</a> <a class="QuickLink" href="javascript:%20d.closeAll();">Close All Folders</a></span></p>
		<p id="TreeLinks"><span><a class="QuickLink" href="javascript: d.openTo(1, true);">Open Terms</a> <a class="QuickLink" href="javascript: d.openTo(2, true);">Open Payment Schedules</a> <a class="QuickLink" href="javascript: d.openTo(3, true);">Open SOP's</a></span></p>
		<p><script type="text/javascript" src="JavaScript/dtreeDocWrite.js"></script></p>
	</div>
	<hr />
	
</div>
<div id="CR">Last Updated: February 28, 2006</div>
</body>

Code:

#Title {
font-size: 26px;
color: black;
border-width: 3px;
border-color: #d81f03;
border-style: solid;
margin-top: -55px;
margin-left: 0px;
float: left;
background-color: #F5F5F5;
padding: 5px;
}

Thanks,

Brad

I've got a div tag that I show and hide on an accessKey press. It is used for special navagation in the site. The div tag has a background color defined in the CSS. The background color only shows up in FF.

I know I'm using tables when I don't need to, and this is pretty sloppy right now.. but I'm going to clean it up a bit... I just finished writing a function to keep the div tags above select elements in IE and haven't had a chance to do the cleaning up yet.

But I think my problem is probably very simple and is something stupid in my style sheet or some behavior of IE I don't know about or have forgotten about.

Code:

<div id="gotoSmall"><input type="image" id="hiddenGoTo" src="<c:out value='${pageContext.request.contextPath}'/>/images/XXXXyyyy/empty.gif" name="hiddenGoTo" accessKey="g" onfocus="showHideGoto('show');"/></div>
<div id="gotoDiv">
	<form name="GoToScreen" class="form" onsubmit="javascript:return goToNextScreen(this,'<c:out value='${pageContext.request.contextPath}'/>')" method="post">
	
	<table class="goToTable" id="gotoTable">						
		<tr>
			<td align="right" nowrap="nowrap">
				<label class="XXXXGoToLabel" id="goTo">go to</Label> 
			</td><td>
		      	<input name="screenName" autocomplete="off" class="XXXXGoToInput" id="XXXXGoToInput" type="text" onblur="return toUpper(this);" size="12"  height="20px" value="" maxlength="12" tabindex="-1"/>										  		
  			</td>
  			<td>&nbsp;
  				<input type="hidden" name="XXXXActionOrTab" value="Refresh"/>
		  		<input type="hidden" name="useSessionKeys" value="true"/>
		  		<input type="hidden" name="backButtonCheck" value="pageLoad"/>		
		  	</td>
  		</tr><tr>
  			<td align="center" colspan="3">
  				<table>
  					<tr>
  						<td align="right">
  							<input type="submit" name="GoTo" value="Goto" onclick="buttonClick(this);"/>						
						</td><td align="left">
							<input type="button" name="cancel" value="Cancel" onclick="showHideGoto('hide')"/>
						</td>
					</tr>
				</table>
			</td>
		</tr>
	</table>
	</form>	
</div>

Code:

#gotoDiv{
	display: block;
	left:450;
	top:200;
	z-index:10000;
	width:204px;
	height:54px;
	visibility:hidden;
	position: absolute;
	background-color: grey;
}#gotoSmall{
	display: block;	
	z-index:10000;
	width:0px;
	height:0px;
	position: absolute;
}
.goToTable{
	width:200px;
	height:50px;
	background-color: #e0dfe3;
	border: 1px solid black;
	border-style: groove;
	border-spacing: 0px;
	border-collapse: collapse;
}

Hey everyone.

First of all, I apologise for imposing on you another question about drop shadows in CSS. I have tried my hardest with what I've been trying to achieve here (including using the resources that gave me the info to use this technique in the first place) but I've hit a brick wall.

Allow me to demonstrate: http://www.hrfc.org.uk/test2/index.htm

At the top right of the content, there is a box I've created, within which the ultimate user of this site will be able to put screen shots, and then type their captions below.

Ideally, I want to be able to have this box (.grabcontainer in the CSS) have a drop shadow.

I was able to achieve a drop shadow for the <img> on its own (as can be seen by scrolling further down the page to the image at the bottom)... but I can't think of a way of extending this technique so that it works for my .grabcontainer class.

If anyone has any suggestions I'd really appreciate it. I've played with this all day but every attempt normally ruins the careful arrangement of the divs.

Thanks for reading

Eldoc

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