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Drop shadow in center column


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Old Jun 13, 2009, 09:37 PM
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kal
 
149 posts · May 2009
Rhode Island
Is there a way to create a drop shadow effect going down each side of the center column? I tried messing with the column settings using background and an image, but I can't get it to look right. Can any one point me in the right direction?
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Old Jun 14, 2009, 08:02 AM
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kal
 
149 posts · May 2009
Rhode Island
Just to clarify. This is what I am trying to do (see attached).
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Old Jun 14, 2009, 08:06 AM
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paulae
 
1,333 posts · Feb 2009
Wordpress 3.4.1, Atahualpa 3.7.7
That's pretty. I'd like to know too. What is the URL of that page? We could use Firebug to see how it was done.
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Old Jun 14, 2009, 09:22 AM
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kal
 
149 posts · May 2009
Rhode Island
It's my site (www.mikerielly.com) but I made the image using Photoshop. That is the effect I am trying to create.
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Old Jun 17, 2009, 05:22 AM
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kal
 
149 posts · May 2009
Rhode Island
*bump* anyone?
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Old Jun 17, 2009, 06:16 AM
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juggledad
 
23,765 posts · Mar 2009
OSX 10.11.5 WP 4.x Atahualpa(all) Safari, Firefox, Chrome
You must remember a couple things.

(1) the center column can vary in size - compare the center column on a blog page with 10 full posts vrs a single post page

(2) the center column can have multiple posts and each post is in a container that rest atop the center column, commonly, these post containers are seperated by some degree so there would be a gap between them

the problems that come up are how big to make a background image for the center column and how to repeat it. Remember that not only can the height of the center colum change, but if you are not using a fixed width page size, the width of the center column can change.

to see what I mean, add the following to ATO->Center->Center column style
HTML Code:
background-image: url(./wp-content/themes/atahualpa/images/inputbackgr-red.gif);
background-repeat: repeat;
and look at how it shows up on several of your pages.
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Old Jun 18, 2009, 07:39 PM
PrettyChicky
 
8 posts · Jun 2009
There's a post on this here as well- that's how I figured mine out. www.prettychicky.com

http://forum.bytesforall.com/showthr...+shadow+center

U have to create a background image and then use "top center repeat-y". Flynn gives an image in the post- but I created my own.

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