Introduction

In today's article, you will learn about Box-Shadow. The Box-Shadow property allows designers to implement multiple drop shadows on a box element (<div>,<li> etc), specifying the color of a value, blur, offset and size.

Box-Shadow

Y-axis X-axis blur spread color inset There are two types of shadows, they are:
  1. Outer shadow
  2. Inset shadow
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The Box-Shadow property by default supports an outer shadow and background color. Browser Support
Here's a basic example of a div:
  1. <!DOCTYPE html>
  2. <head>
  3. <title></title>
  4. <style>
  5. #main {
  6. height: 800px;
  7. width: 100%;
  8. }
  9. #shadow {
  10. margin: 0 auto;
  11. height: 300px;
  12. width: 400px;
  13. background: #432567;
  14. box-shadow: 7px 9px 37px 11px;
  15. }
  16. </style>
  17. </head>
  18. <body>
  19. <div id="main">
  20. <div id="shadow"></div>
  21. </div>
  22. </body>
  23. </html>
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  1. <style>
  2. #main {
  3. height: 800px;
  4. width: 100%;
  5. }
  6. #shadow {
  7. margin: 0 auto;
  8. height: 300px;
  9. width: 400px;
  10. box-shadow: 1px 1px 77px 15px #345 inset;
  11. }
  12. </style>
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Here's a basic example of <ul> and <li>:
  1. <head>
  2. <style>
  3. #main {
  4. height: 800px;
  5. width: 100%;
  6. }
  7. #shadow {
  8. margin: 0 auto;
  9. height: 300px;
  10. width: 1024px;
  11. }
  12. ul {list-style:none;
  13. }
  14. ul li {float:left;
  15. width:100px;
  16. text-align:center;
  17. padding:23px;
  18. font-weight:bold;
  19. font-family:Arial;
  20. font-size:20px;
  21. margin:21px;
  22. box-shadow:-11px -3px 29px 4px;
  23. border-radius:30px;
  24. }
  26. </style>
  27. </head>
  28. <body>
  29. <div id="main">
  30. <div id="shadow">
  31. <ul>
  32. <li>Home </li>
  33. <li>AboutUs</li>
  34. <li> Contact</li>
  35. <li> placement</li>
  36. </ul>
  37. </div>
  38. </div>
  39. </body>
  40. </html>
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If you will change only:
box-shadow:-11px -3px 29px 4px inset;//You can give any color This type:
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Here's a basic example of Input types showing a button and three text boxes:
  1. <style>
  2. #main {
  3. height: 800px;
  4. width: 100%;
  5. }
  6. #shadow {
  7. margin: 0 auto;
  8. height: 300px;
  9. width: 1024px;
  10. }
  11. label {width:120px;
  12. float:left;
  13. font-weight:bold;
  14. font-family:Arial;
  15. font-size:18px;
  16. margin:20px;
  17. }
  18. input.button {
  19. box-shadow:-11px -3px 29px 4px ;
  20. height:60px; width:120px;
  21. border:none;
  22. border-radius:10px;
  23. margin-left:170px;
  24. }
  25. input.text {height:30px;
  26. width:300px;
  27. box-shadow:-11px -3px 29px 4px;
  28. font-weight:bold;
  29. font-family:Arial;
  30. font-size:18px;
  31. border-radius:10px;
  32. margin:20px;
  33. background:#808080;
  34. }
  35. </style>
  36. </head>
  37. <body>
  38. <div id="main">
  39. <div id="shadow">
  40. <label> First Name :</label><input type="text" class="text" value="Enter first name" /><br />
  41. <label> Last Name :</label><input type="text" class="text" value="Enter last name" /><br />
  42. <label> Addres :</label><input type="text" class="text" value="Enter your addres" /><br /><br />
  43. <input type="button" class="button" value=" Button" />
  45. </div>
  46. </div>
  47. </body>
  48. </html>
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If you change the style in Box-shadow like:
  1. box-shadow:-11px -3px 29px 4px inset;
  2. background:none;
Then you will find this type:
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