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CSS CSS Basics (2014) Enhancing the Design With CSS Box Shadows

Posted by Benjamin Hedgepeth
Benjamin Hedgepeth
5,672 Points

Box shadow detrimentally alters img

I'm doing a personal website after the "How To Make A Website" model? My images are nothing but different colored boxes created in Microsoft Paint. When I use the box shadow property for my images a white line appears on the bottom of the images. When I comment out the box shadow property the white line disappears.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
    <link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Poiret+One|Tangerine' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css">
    <title>Designer</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <header>
      <a href="index.html" id="logo">
        <h1>Digital Designer <br><span id="subtitle">A Visual Collection</span></h1>
      </a>
      <nav>
        <ul id="sitenav">
          <li><a href="index.html">Main Design</a></li>
          <li><a href="static.html">Static</a></li>
          <li><a href="dynamic.html">Dynamic</a></li>
          <li><a href="about.html">About</a></li>
        </ul>
      </nav>
    </header>
    <div id="showcase">
      <section>
        <ul id="gallery">
          <li><img src="img/img1.png" alt="One"></li>
          <li><img src="img/img2.png" alt="Two"></li>
          <li><img src="img/img3.png" alt="Three"></li>
          <li><img src="img/img4.png" alt="Four"></li>
          <li><img src="img/img5.png" alt="Five"></li>
          <li><img src="img/img6.png" alt="Six"></li>
          <li><img src="img/img7.png" alt="Seven"></li>
          <li><img src="img/img8.png" alt="Eight"></li>
          <li><img src="img/img9.png" alt="Nine"></li>
      </section>
      <footer>
        <p>&copy 2016 Benjamin Hedgepeth.</p>
      </footer>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

CSS

#showcase #gallery li {
  box-shadow: 0 8px 10px -5px black;
}

2 Answers

Jennifer Nordell
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Well, I see a couple of interesting things here. First off, your unordered list is never terminated. You're missing the ending tag for it. Secondly I believe your CSS rule should look like this:

#showcase,
 #gallery li {
  box-shadow: 0 8px 10px -5px black;
}

You might try to remove the #showcase part from that line altogether.

Benjamin Hedgepeth
Benjamin Hedgepeth
5,672 Points

I fixed the unordered list by inserting the closing tag and I removed the #showcase yet I still have the same problem.

Adam Hill
Adam Hill
7,490 Points
Adam Hill
Adam Hill
7,490 Points

You can sometimes get hangovers from native browser default styles, you could try adding padding:0; and line-height:0; to your #gallery li style.