CSS drop shadows II: fuzzy shadows

Written by , published April 24th, 2004

Categorised under: Web development

Sergio Villarreal has written an article on an improved technique for creating drop shadows using CSS. To quote:

The most complained-about shortcoming of the technique turned out to be the sharp top and left edges of the shadow, which, although generally acceptable, are unlike what an image editing program would produce (a fuzzy shadow). Given that the shadow image is effectively clipped at those points, we felt this was an unavoidable inconvenience, chiefly due to Internet Explorer