15 CSS box-shadow Examples

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Saturated vs Desaturated Box-Shadow

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Dropplets

SVG filters and CSS shadows.

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Box Shadow Piano

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Parallax Shadows (Mobile-Friendly)

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Image Shadows

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Multiple Shadows

Playing with placing multiple shadows on an element. This gives it the look of depth with a "natural" shadow, as if there was actually a light shining on the page.

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CSS Pixel Animation

8 bit pixelated woman made with box-shadows on a single div.

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Button Hover Effects with box-shadow

Making some basic animations with box-shadows. No extra elements or even pseudo elements required. Tips: - We're setting all the blurs to 0 since we want a solid fill; - Add the inset keyword so the box-shadow is on the inside of the element; - Animating the inset shadow on hover looks like the element is filling in from whatever side you specify ([top] and [left] accept negative values to become [bottom] and [right]); - Multiple shadows can be stacked; - If you're animating multiple shadows, be sure to keep the same number of shadows so the animation is smooth. Otherwise, you'll get something choppy.

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box-shadow Spill

Using offsetting inset and outer box-shadows to create a 3D-like effect.

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box-shadow Pseudo Loaders

Leveraging the use of box-shadow to create interesting loading effects with just pseudo elements. Just by adding a class to an element you can get a cool loading animation in an overlay.

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Dynamic Box Shadow

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Isolating CSS Box Shadows

A simple & often misunderstood CSS fundamental. To isolate a single shadow we apply a negative spread and offset in the desired direction, then add a blur radius of equal distance to compensate. For inset shadows, the spread remains constant but we apply an offset in the opposite(-ve) direction. For multiple sides/shadows, simply combine any of the desired single-side rules into a comma separated list.

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Material Design Box Shadows

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Live Stripes

Made with box-shadows. CSS only.

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39 Ridiculous Things To Do With CSS3 Box Shadows

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