Shadow Gradient Script

By Michael Burt on Jan 19, 2007

General

Add a shaded border effect to any valid HTML tag. You can edit the depth, the opacity, and the color of the shadow.

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Notes

Created by: Michael Burt
Web Site: http://galaxydefense.ga.funpic.org/
Posted: January 19, 2007

Source Code

Paste this source code into the designated areas.

External file

Paste this code into an external JavaScript file named: shadowGradient.js

var depth = 6 // in pixels

// addLoadEvent created by: Simon Willison
// http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2004/05/26/addLoadEvent
function addLoadEvent(func) {
  var oldonload = window.onload;
  if (typeof window.onload != ‘function’) {
    window.onload = func;
  } else {
    window.onload = function() {
      if (oldonload) {
        oldonload();
      }
      func();
    }
  }
}

addLoadEvent(function() {

// Created by: Michael Burt
// http://galaxydefense.ga.funpic.org/
var a = document.all ? document.all : document.getElementsByTagName(‘*’);
for (var i = 0;i < a.length;i++) {
 	if (a[i].className == “shadow”) {
  		for (x = 0;x < depth;x++) {
   			var newSd = document.createElement(“DIV”)
   			newSd.className = “shadow2”
   			newSd.style.background = a[i].id
   			newSd.style.width = a[i].offsetWidth + “px”
   			newSd.style.height = a[i].offsetHeight + “px”
   			newSd.style.left = a[i].offsetLeft + x + “px”
   			newSd.style.top = a[i].offsetTop + x + “px”
   			document.body.appendChild(newSd)
   			}
  		}
 	}
}
);

CSS

Paste this code into your external CSS file or in the <style> section within the HEAD section of your HTML document.

.shadow {
  border: 1px solid silver;
  padding: 2px;
  font: 10pt arial;
  position: relative;
  display: inline;
  background: white;
  z-index: 100
}
.shadow2 {
  overflow: hidden;
  position: absolute;
  filter: alpha(Opacity=15); /* modify to change the shade solidity/opacity, same as below */
  opacity: 0.1; /* firefox 1.5 opacity */
  -moz-opacity: 0.2; /* mozilla opacity */
  -khtml-opacity: 0.1; /* opacity */
  z-index: 10
}

Head

Paste this code into the HEAD section of your HTML document.


<script type=”text/javascript” src=”shadowGradient.js”></script>

Body

Paste this code into the BODY section of your HTML document

<p style=”text-align: center;”>
<img src=”http://www.javascriptsource.com/img/headerlogo.gif” class=”shadow” id=”#000099″>
<br><br>
<img src=”http://www.webreference.com/art/webref.gif” class=”shadow” id=”#ff3030″>
</p>
<div class=”shadow” id=”black” style=”display: block; width: 20%; margin-left: 42%; padding: 8px;”>
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</div>