Drop Shadow Variables

Poster: Doubledown
Dated: Monday March 29 2004 - 17:45:34 BST

I know this may seem trivial to some, but we designers can be anal about these things: are Strength, Direction & Colour the only 3 variables you can control for the drop shadow? I would like to achieve an offset of 0 for the shadow, so that it will show up around all sides of the menu. I tried throwing in "Offset=0" into the code with no success Does anyone know a way? Thanks for any help.

Poster: Maz
Dated: Monday March 29 2004 - 18:03:56 BST

I like text shadow that only works in Safari;)

Anyhow, can you use text=<style=color:#ffffff;>TEST</style>;

Anything that can be done is css. Like onclass="cssstylename" and offclass.

offset is used to position a menu like top="offset=3"; left="offset=3";

If you can do it in css you can make it work.

maz

Poster: John
Dated: Monday March 29 2004 - 19:30:47 BST

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/filter/filters.asp at the bottom of the page for more info on the filters.

Poster: Doubledown
Dated: Monday March 29 2004 - 20:07:06 BST

Hey that's a handy link. Actually changing the style from a Shadow to a Glow gives closer to the desired effect. Thanks!

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Monday March 29 2004 - 20:22:12 BST

I played around with shadow and dropshadow used together and setting the direction or offsets in combination will give you a menu having borders around it [well, I didn't do indepth so it's only 3 sides, but you can play with direction and offX offY and get what you want, I believe]


At the Filters and Transitions reference John gave it talks of using more than one together.

Ruth

Poster: John
Dated: Monday March 29 2004 - 20:41:16 BST

Don't forget, 99.99% of the time you'll only see your hard work on IE...