Really simple drop shadow

by David Alfaro 10. October 2008 11:14

What are we facing?

I want the simplest solution to have a drop shadow effect on an image using just CSS. What is the shortest piece of code for drop shadow?

The Solution

The shortest piece of code for making a drop shadow is found in the book CSS Mastery of Andy Budd et al.

The shadow is a constructed via an outer "div" element wrapping the image. For example:

<div class="img-wrapper"><img src="tiny-logo.gif" alt="Aggiorno" /></div>

The tiniest CSS code you need to do drop shadow is:

.img-wrapper {
       background: url("shadow.png") no-repeat bottom right;
       clear: right;
       float: left;
.img-wrapper img { margin: -8px 8px 8px -8px; }

Displaying the pretty drop shadow you wanted:

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