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Box Shadow .box {height: 150px;width: 300px;margin: 20px;border: 1px solid

ccc; } .top {box-shadow: 0 -5px 5px -5px

333; } .right {box-shadow: 5px 0 5px -5px

333; } .bottom {box-shadow: 0 5px 5px -5px

333; } .left {box-shadow: -5px 0 5px -5px

333; } .all {box-shadow: 0 0 5px

333; }

The box-shadow CSS property adds shadow effects around an element's frame. You can set multiple effects separated by commas. A box shadow is described by X and Y offsets relative to the element, blur and spread radius, and color.

The box-shadow property enables you to cast a drop shadow from the frame of almost any element. If a border-radius is specified on the element with a box shadow, the box shadow takes on the same rounded corners. The z-ordering of multiple box shadows is the same as multiple text shadows (the first specified shadow is on top).

Box-shadow generator is an interactive tool allowing you to generate a box-shadow.

/* Keyword values */
box-shadow: none;
/* A color and two length values */
/*  |  |  */
box-shadow: red 60px -16px;
/* Three length values and a color */
/*  |  |  |  */
box-shadow: 10px 5px 5px black;
/* Four length values and a color */
/*  |  |  |  |  */
box-shadow: 2px 2px 2px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
/* inset, length values, and a color */
/*  |  |  |  */
box-shadow: inset 5em 1em gold;
/* Any number of shadows, separated by commas */
box-shadow:
  3px 3px red inset,
  -1em 0 0.4em olive;
/* Global values */
box-shadow: inherit;
box-shadow: initial;
box-shadow: revert;
box-shadow: revert-layer;
box-shadow: unset;

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  — Maya Angelou

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— Maya Angelou

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Initial value

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Hello World

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HTML

  
    You may shoot me with your words,

    You may cut me with your eyes,

    You may kill me with your hatefulness,

    But still, like air, I'll rise.
  
  
— Maya Angelou

CSS

blockquote {
  padding: 20px;
  box-shadow:
    inset 0 -3em 3em rgba(0, 200, 0, 0.3),
    0 0 0 2px white,
    0.3em 0.3em 1em rgba(200, 0, 0, 0.6);
}

Result

When the

Hello World

5,

Hello World

6, and

Hello World

7 are all zero, the box shadow will be a solid-colored outline of equal-size on all sides. The shadows are drawn back to front, so the first shadow sits on top of subsequent shadows. When the border-radius is set to 0, as is the default, the corners of the shadow will be, well, corners. Had we put in a border-radius of any other value, the corners would have been rounded.

We added a margin the size of the widest box-shadow to ensure the shadow doesn't overlap adjacent elements or go beyond the border of the containing box. A box-shadow does not impact box model dimensions.

How do you get a box shadow on top and bottom?

Element CSS We can get top bottom box shadow only by applying two shadows on an element. This approach will give us more control over the amount of shadow in each direction. You can played around and adjust the values of box-shadow property in our multiple box shadow generator to get more exiting results.

How do you make two shadows?

A: You get two shadows when the light is coming from two main sources, maybe two different street lamps.

How do you put a shadow on the bottom border?

CSS Box Shadow Bottom Only.

h-shadow: The horizontal offset of the shadow. ... .

v-shadow: The vertical offset of the shadow. ... .

blur: The blur radius of the shadow. ... .

spread: The spread radius of the shadow. ... .

color: The color of the shadow..

inset: Optional..

How do you add multiple box shadows?

Multiple box-shadows can be created by using commas to separate properties of each box-shadow element. Here's an example of the CSS to create multiple shadows with some blur, at mostly-transparent black colors: box-shadow: 0 10px 20px rgba(0,0,0,0.19), 0 6px 6px rgba(0,0,0,0.23);