Ok I have been messing with a drop shadow effect for about an hour or so and have it working great! One thing is, my page content is not perfectly centered anymore. Not sure if this would be a real problem, as the page seems to render well, but I couldn't figure out how to get it back to center.
I wrapped my original wrapper div in two more divs. The outer one I set margins to auto and that centered, but the second div, .back, I had to set some margins as well as my original div, #wrapper, I gave some negative margins to offset so the shadow effect would display properly.
Will this pose a problem that anyone may have encountered before? Also, there should be no reason why the page shouldn't be centered, and if anyone could offer some advice on how to get it back to center, I would appreciae it. Here is the html and CSS in question:
<div class="center">
<div class="back">
<div id="wrapper">
<cfinclude template="../header.cfm">
<div id="main">
<div id="sidebar">
<cfinclude template="../sidebar.cfm">
</div>
<div id="content">
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body {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: small;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
background-color: #999;
}
.center {
width:1000px;
margin: 10px auto 0px auto;
}
.back {
background: #666;
width: 1000px;
margin: 3em 0 3em 2em;
padding: 1.2em;
}
#wrapper {
padding: 0px;
margin: -3em 0 0 -3em;
border: thin solid #ccc;
background-color: #FFF;
}