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CSS CSS Foundations Backgrounds and Borders Box Shadows

Ian de Jesus
Ian de Jesus
8,559 Points
Posted by Ian de Jesus
Ian de Jesus
8,559 Points

Code seems correct. What seems to be wrong?

.box { box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px 15px #222; }

2 Answers

Dustin Matlock
Dustin Matlock
33,856 Points

Yes, it looks as though you just have the blur and spread radius mixed up.

.box {
    box-shadow: 10px 10px 15px 5px #222;
}

  1. The horizontal offset of the shadow, positive means the shadow will be on the right of the box, a negative offset will put the shadow on the left of the box.

  2. The vertical offset of the shadow, a negative one means the box-shadow will be above the box, a positive one means the shadow will be below the box.

  3. The blur radius (optional), if set to 0 the shadow will be sharp, the higher the number, the more blurred it will be.

  4. The spread radius (optional), positive values increase the size of the shadow, negative values decrease the size. Default is 0 (the shadow is same size as blur).

  5. Color.

CSS Box Shadow

Łukasz Czuliński
Łukasz Czuliński
8,646 Points
Łukasz Czuliński
Łukasz Czuliński
8,646 Points

It looks fine to me. How is it showing incorrect? Is it in a project or from a Treehouse challenge?

EDIT: Ignore. Didn't see the post before me which specifies it's from a challenge.