A few months ago, we talked about how you can use cascading style sheets to add a drop-shadow effect to text by using the CSS property text-shadow.
Today, we’d like to show how you can add a drop-shadow effect to box elements, using the new CSS3 property box-shadow.
For example, suppose you want to have the words Stanford University highlighted in light grey background with a cardinal red drop shadow, here’s the code you would write:
<!DOCTYPE HTML> <html> <head> <title>Stanford University</title> <style type="text/css"> h1 { -moz-box-shadow: 5px 10px 15px #820000; -webkit-box-shadow: 5px 10px 15px #820000; box-shadow: 5px 10px 15px #820000; background: #eee; } </style> </head> <body> <h1>Stanford University</h1> </body> </html>
And here is how it will look (in most browsers — visit http://caniuse.com/#search=box-shadow for details):
Tags: cascading style sheets, css, css3
