Thursday 23 February 2012

Box Shadow (Right and Left Only)

Here is a CSS code to create shadows only on the left and right of a box which wasn't too easy to find. I found this one on a forum so I thought it might be useful for someone else. All the values can be changed to your liking but below is a sample.

div { width: 400px; height: 400px; 
box-shadow: 6px 0 4px -4px #222 , -6px 0 4px -4px #222; 
 -moz-box-shadow: 6px 0 4px -4px #222, -6px 0 4px -4px #222; 
-webkit-box-shadow: 6px 0 4px -4px #222, -6px 0 4px -4px #222;} 

Understanding the code goes a bit like like this:

     x-offset (right[+] or left[-])
     y-offset (bottom[+] or top[-])
     blur 
     spread
     colour

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Update:

Since this seems to be a post that is viewed a lot, I thought I'd add a pen as well. I changed the values a little from the code above.

6 comments:

yugandahr said...

Nice blog with useful articles.... Thanks for sharing

Tiffany Ong said...

Thanks! Glad you found it useful.

dekisha said...

Thanks a lot!

lalita said...

very nice blog.
but when we increase its blurness or spread it rather then taking for 2 side it show the shadow form all the side.

regs/Deepa

lingmaaki said...

div {
border:5px solid #4FFFA1;
padding:30px;
background:#F6FFA1;
width:100px;
box-shadow: 5px 0 2px black;
}

shadow on one side

http://www.corelangs.com/css/box/round.html
css shadow

ling

Amrutha said...

Thanq...