Hi all, my first post to this list so here goes… I have a site www.flashforprogrammers.com,
each page ‘floats’ on a background with a dropshadow. I’m no
HTML fiend, a friend told me how to add the drop shadow. It’s done thus: <div
style="width:700px;height:1250px;filter:shadow(color:black,direction:135);"> <div
style="width:682px;background:white;border:1px solid
black;padding:20px;"> …content </div> </div/ The shadow looks great but the problem is that I have to
manually insert the height on each page. The pages are generated from XML
templates using XSLT so it’s not that laborious but still, there are
hundreds of pages so it takes time. I also like to leave a ‘gap’ at
the bottom, after the main content, so that the user can scroll down a little
further. So, my question is: is there a way for me to use this filter
drop shadow without the requirement to statically add the height to each page?
Would a bit of _javascript_ do the trick? Although I’d rather not resort to
that. Also, I’ve seen other implementations of drop shadows that rely on
an offset div element and these initially worked fine but they appear flaky in
practice and the explanations given on websites purporting to teach this stuff
I find barely comprehensible. Can anyone help me out? Also, any comments on the site in general would be great.
What are your opinions on using Flash for content in this way? Kind regards, Jim |
- [WSG] drop shadows James Smith
- Re: [WSG] drop shadows Roberto Gorjão