July 6, 2005
Making Drop Shadows with CSS
While creating our recent updates to TypePad, we needed to be able to create simple drop shadows for elements of our user interface. Randy Reddig, one of our engineers here at Six Apart, created a simple system that can be used in any CSS layout, and now he's written up a ProNet article about the technique so you can make use of it in your own applications and sites.
yDSF - Robust CSS Drop Shadows describes the way it works, offers up a sample page showing some (over)use of the technique, and documents how yDSF works with all modern browsers while gracefully degrading on older systems. If you're a TypePad user, you can already see it in action just by using the new comment and TrackBack management screens.
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