HTML and CSS Reference
In-Depth Information
The border-radius property can be used to round corners and even create circles
out of pure CSS, with no images needed. (Stunning CSS3 web site)
Drop Shadows
Aids in: progressive enhancement, adaptability, e
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ciency
Drop shadows can provide some visual polish to your design, and now
they're possible to achieve without images, both on boxes and on text.
The
box-shadow property
has been temporarily removed from the
CSS3 spec, but is supposed to be making its re-appearance soon. In the
meantime, it's still possible to get image-free drop shadows on boxes in
Firefox and Safari/Chrome using the
-moz-box-shadow
and
-webkit-
box-shadow
properties, respectively, and in Opera 10.5 using the regular
box-shadow
property with no prefix. In the property, you set the the
shadow's horizontal and vertical o
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sets from the box, color, and can
optionally set blur radius and/or spread radius.