CSS - Filter : Shadow

Im creating a training log for use by myself and to teach me ruby on rails but Im running into trouble coding the css for the interface. My content box has a significant shadow with rounded corners and Im not sure what the best practice would be to code this. Im running into trouble because when I put the top background piece in it pushes the content down to far while making the transition of the drop shadow from the rounded corner to the edge. I want the content to be 10 px from the edge of the rounded box but in order to get the shading and corners right I need to have a large slice of the top and bottom of the background pushing the content more than 10 px down. Ive tried negative margins but that just brings my repeater background higher up covering the corners. Please let me know if there is a better way in which I can have my content in the right place.

thanks in advance!
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I guess I cant post a link to a screenshot so I hope I described it well enough...

Hi guys

I've seen a few websites that use a fixed width column in the middle of the screen that appear to cast a shadow over the background. I want to achieve that but I can't figure out how.

The central div is 800px wide so I tried creating a very wide but short background image with this image on but I can't position it bang in the middle where I need it (the image is 2400x8px and 1.46KB)

Can anyone help? Either with the positioning of this image or with a better solution?

Cheers guys

Hey guys
I'm new here, so I apologise if I do something wrong or write something!

Anyway,

I have a small query regarding CSS on my website.
It is valid CSS before you ask and th eproblem is - I have a shadow which is meant to appear on my website and in IE6 it does not. It is an image that is a height of 2 and then i want it to be height 100% so it fill sup the container it is in.

So, border-left and border-right are in the container 'page' and do not show up (but they do in opera, firefox, safari, ie7 and netscape)

Another problem in IE6, is the 100% width issue, anyone know how to fix this too? (all the widths that are 100% on the page, i tried to fix it in the IE6 fixes but it didnt work)

Any ideas?

The code is below

Code:

#header {
	position: absolute;
	top: 0px;
	left: 0px;
	width: 100%;
	background-image: url(images/headerbg.gif);
	background-repeat:repeat-x;
	height: 128px;
	z-index: 1;
}

#logo {
	position:relative;
	width:231px;
	height:94px;
	margin-left: auto;
	margin-right: auto;
	background-image: url(images/logo.jpg);
}

#menuspacer {
	position: absolute;
	top:110px;
	left: 0px;
	height: 41px;
	width: 100%;
	z-index: 2;
	border-bottom: 1px solid #FF8000;
}

#menubg {
	position:relative;
	top:116px;
	height: 25px;
	width: 500px;
	margin-right: auto;
	margin-left: auto;
	z-index: 3;
	border-left: 1px solid #FF8000;
	border-right: 1px solid #FF8000;
	border-bottom: 1px solid #FF8000;
		background-color:#FFFFFF;

}
#menufakeborder {
	position:relative;
	top:89px;
	height: 20px;
	width: 500px;
	margin-right: auto;
	margin-left: auto;
	z-index: 4;
	border-left: 1px solid #ffcb9d;
	border-right: 1px solid #ffcb9d;
}

#menucontainer {
	position:relative;
	top:0px;
	height: 23px;
	width: 500px;
	margin-right: 0px;
	margin-left: 0;
	z-index: 5;
}

#menu li
{
	display: inline;
	list-style-type: none;
	padding-right: 9px;
	margin-left: auto;
	margin-right: auto;
	font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-weight:normal;
	color: #550000;
	text-decoration: none;
	text-align:center;
	z-index:6;
	background-color:#FFFFFF;
}

#photobg {
	position:absolute;
	top: 152px;
	left: 0px;
	width:100%;
	height: 161px;
	background-image:url(images/horsebg.gif);
	background-repeat:repeat-x;
	z-index:2;
	
}

#horse {
	position: relative;
	top: 91px;
	margin-left: auto;
	margin-right: auto;
	background-image:url(images/horse2.jpg);
	width:1035px;
	height: 161px;
	z-index:2;
}

#border-right {
	position:absolute;
	top: 0px;
	right: 137px;
	width:22px;
	height:97%;
	background-image:url(images/border-right.gif);
	background-repeat:repeat-y;
	z-index:2324235;
	background-color:#003366;
}

#border-left {
	position:absolute;
	top: 0px;
	left: 137px;
	width:20px;
	height:97%;
	background-image:url(images/border-left.gif);
	background-repeat:repeat-y;
	z-index:512;
	
}

#border-left-end {
	position:absolute;
	bottom: -18px;
	left: 139px;
	width:18px;
	height:58px;
	background-image:url(images/border-left-end.gif);
	z-index:1;
}

#border-right-end {
	position:absolute;
	bottom: -18px;
	right: 141px;
	width:18px;
	height:58px;
	background-image:url(images/border-right-end.gif);
	z-index:1;
}

#horse-tail {
	position:absolute;
	top: 161px;
	left: 63px;
	width:94px;
	height:61px;
	background-image:url(images/horsetail.gif);
	z-index:1;
	
}

#footer {
	position:absolute;
	bottom: -175px;
	width:100%;
	height:22px;
	background-image:url(images/footerbg.gif);
	background-repeat:repeat-x;
	left: 0px;
	border-top: 1px solid #FF8000;
	z-index:0;
}

#footer-text {
	position:relative;
	bottom: 3px;
	width:420px;
	height:22px;
	margin:0 auto;
	z-index:2;
	border-right: 1px solid #FF8000;
	border-bottom: 1px solid #FF8000;
	border-left: 1px solid #FF8000;
	background-color:#FFFFFF;
}

#page {
	position: relative;
	top: 0px;
	left:0px;
	margin-left: auto;
	margin-right: auto;
	height: auto;
	width: 1035px;
	z-index: 0;
}

and the fixes for IE at present:

Code:

#header {
	width: 101.5%;
	left:0px;
}

#photobg {
	width: 101.5%;
	left:0px;
}

#menuspacer {
	width: 101.5%;
	left:0px;
}

#menu
{
	list-style-type: none;
	margin-right: auto;
	width: 498px;
	margin:auto auto;
	padding:0px 0;
}

#menu li {
	display: inline;
	padding-right: 10px;
	margin-left: auto;
	margin-right: auto;
	text-align:center;

}

#footer {
	width: 101.5%;
	left:0px;
}

#border-right {
	right: 136px;
}

and the HTML;

Code:

<div id="header">
  <div id="logo"></div>
</div>
<div id="menuspacer"></div>
<div id="menubg">
  <!--[if ! IE 6]><div id="menucontainer"><![endif]-->
  <!--[if IE 6]><div id="menucontainer" align="center"><![endif]-->
  <ul id="menu" align="center">
menu items
  </ul>
</div>
</div>
<div id="menufakeborder"></div>
<div id="photobg"></div>
<div id="horse">
  <div id="horse-tail"></div>
</div>
<div id="page">
  <div id="border-right"></div>
  <div id="border-right-end"></div>
  <p>&nbsp;</p>
  <p>&nbsp;</p>
  <p>&nbsp;</p>
  <p>&nbsp;</p>
  <p>&nbsp;</p>
  <p>&nbsp;</p>
  <p>&nbsp;</p>
  <p>&nbsp;</p>
  <p>&nbsp;</p>
  content
   <p>&nbsp;</p>
  </div>
  <p>&nbsp;</p>
  <p>&nbsp;</p>
  <div id="border-left"></div>
  <div id="border-left-end"></div>
</div>
<div id="footer">
  <div id="footer-text" align="center"><img src="images/footer.jpg" /></div>
</div>

Thanks so much and looking forward to a reply soon!!

Hello, I am wanting to add a shadow to both sides of the container box i have for my css site layout. Is this possible. I was using border-left and border right applying the border settings but i would like to have a more of a shadow result. Can anyone help me with this please? Many thanks in advance.

Just one of those educational "How Do They Do that?" Questions...

Here is my site...(NOT a real business...just a project)

My Projekt

I was wondering how those drop shadows around the body "frame" are created like the following site:

This Site

I've looked under different threads, viewed hundreds of lines of page source code and search engine results to no avail. I did find ONE article stating there is a conflict in FF/Netscape using CSS to render these drop shadows correctly.

Is there a cross-platform (browser) friendly way to create these drop shadows utilizing my friend, CSS; without having to use 200 1 x 1 px images?

Thanks for helping me learn (in advance)...(bows gracefully)

PWD

I suspect that the solution to this problem really involves a more thorough analysis of my code than is fair to inflict upon this audience, but just in case there's something obvious I've overlooked...

I've incorporated a lightbox into a site I'm building at www.charlescarey.co.uk/works.php

When clicking on thumbnails to activate the lightbox, a 'shadow overlay' is supposed to 'grey out' the rest of the page, but it doesn't work; it only greys out a small area to the left.

What am I doing wrong?

Any help appreciated.

Hi there

I am busy making a drop shadow for a div on my site. Works great in everything except IE (well there's a surprise).

What I would like to have is a shadow that emanates from a light source directly above the element (figuratively speaking). The shadow will in other words extend in all directions (or ideally to the left, right and bottom, but not the top) from underneath the div.

I can't seem to get the spread right in IE. It seems that in IE I can only have the shadow extend in one direction.

Here is what it looks like in Chrome, Firefox and Safari (what I want it to loo like)


And this is what I have managed to do for IE 7 & 8


And here is the code:
Code:

#myDiv{-moz-box-shadow: 0px 10px 33px #000; -webkit-box-shadow: 0px 10px 33px #000; box-shadow: 0px 10px 33px #000; /* For IE 8 */-ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Shadow(Strength=15, Direction=180, Color='#000000')"; /* For IE 5.5 - 7 */ filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Shadow(Strength=15, Direction=180, Color='#000000');}

I have been considering using three different elements each with it's own shadow going in different directions. This means a lot of tweaking to only display these elements in IE, and just seems messy in general.

Does anyone have any ideas on how I can solve this in a simpler way?

Any advice would be much appreciated

Hello
am trying to add a black drop shadow to a text whose color is red, how can i proceed with this in css? The text in question is in fact between <h1> tags where the color has been modified to red, but now i want to add a drop shadow in that text using css

Hi all, I have searched all over and can't seem to find an answer. I am looking for a template or tutorial on how to build a center content area with a drop shadow on top of a gradient background. An exact example would be:

www.fatwallet.com
points2shop.com

Thanks for any guidance!

So, I'm trying to find out if there's an easy way to create a shadow around a border. Essentially, I've got a white background div, with an inner div that takes up part of the white. The inner div has a gray background, and I want to somehow give it the impression of being raised from the white. I couldn't find too much searching through google.. then again, not sure what exactly I need to search for in google.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Hi,

I am new to css codes , so please help me with my problems if u can.

I want to add a shadow to my border from all sides to my image .

Hey people, when slicing a new layout for my site I had to do so in tables for the sole reason of a problem I've had for a long time now, how to have a border images set for either side of an image?

The layout is he http://www.trshady.com

Now as you can see, either side of the layout I have a .gif 'shadow' which fails due to .gif not handling gradients and .png being uncompatable transparency with IE but how would I ever add these borders with CSS?

Say they wasn't shadows and images of other kinds .. how would I be able to achieve such an effect?

the border-image property is coming with CCS3 I believe but till then, what solutions do I have?

Hi guys, im new to the webdevelopment world and humbely request your help (However you may see me in the adobe related areas, i have experience there )

Im currently making a profile for my work.

Here are the problems that i couldnt solve through research on other places.

1. I have this odd looking shadow appearing on the hover boxes i got (Thanks to jquery).

PHP Code:
.menu li {     
padding: 0px;     
margin: 0px 6px; 
float: left;     
position: relative;
text-align: center;
width: inherit;

} 





(apparently its something to do with float requiring a width, but i dont fully understand..)


2. The way i have set out my body is to have greater priority to repeating-y whitebox (Its part of a double background thing i attempted) to center along with the background image set in the element html. Because of this my text is totally off, so i was wondering on how to fix this issue (i was thinking about using div tags, but im not exactly sure how to do it). It is also weird how i need to have a 4px margin to align the boxes (even though they are the same width and are positioned to centered).



Help on this issue would be greatly appreciated ! Many thanks in advance <3!

Notes: I have passed with no warning or issues with the Markup Validation test and CSS test at w3.

I have also looked at other blogs and help threads (Like in the adobe comments), but its hard to find something your unsure what it is!

refrence: renren.tssma .com

I'm learning CSS and creating a blog at annieagarwal.com/blog (again, work in progress!)

I want to recreate the shadow on the sides of the main container of this blog

the url is blocked just google robin cornett and then find the style sheets

How do I do that?
The blog has two style sheets


My style sheet is at
annieagarwal.com/blog/wp-content/themes/tofurious/style.css

I created a png of the shadow that is 1000px wide at annieagarwal.com/blog/wp-content/themes/tofurious/images/shadow.png

But I can't seem to get the code right. I want to use a background image/color along with the container having a drop shadow.

I want to add a css drop shadow on flash object (embedded using the object tag) that works with Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari... anyone know how I can code that or know where there examples of it?

TIA