Topic awaiting preservation: Letter dropshadows? css, js, or dhtml?

I read somewhere that transparency can be imparted to html "layers?" and was wondering if a transparancy can be given to an underlying text, thereby making a dropshadow for the overlayed text.

Is this possible to do?

Or is the only way to do it, is with a transparent gif, png, etc.?


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(Edited by UnknownComic on 11-30-2004 03:01)

You can make an element transparent by giving it {background: transparent}. However, what you're asking is: "Can you give a transparency to the entire element?" I believe there is a netscape only attribute that lets you do that.

I have used a <div> to create a drop shadow in the past by giving the background a color of transparent and choosing the foreground color of the drop shadow div so that it is the same as the page background, only greyed. The problem with this method is that you get sharp edges on the drop shadow instead of the blurred edges you can create with a graphic. But often that is an effect that can work.



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Thanks, I guess giving text an outline is not possible yet...

Thanks for the info.

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This may help.
http://www.saila.com/usage/shadow/

You can also achieve the effect using some javascript.
http://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/aqdropshadow/

Personally, I would wait for the "text-shadow" CSS2 property to become supported and just go with graphics for now.

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