# \[Pro\] CSS3 Shadows Action and More

**URL:** <https://discourse.softpress.com/t/pro-css3-shadows-action-and-more/11449>\
**Category:** Freeway\
**Created:** [July 21, 2011, 11:40am UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/pro-css3-shadows-action-and-more/11449 "2011-07-21T11:40:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![SteveB](https://discourse.softpress.com/user_avatar/discourse.softpress.com/steveb/32/2724_2.png) [@SteveB](https://discourse.softpress.com/u/SteveB)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 11:40am UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/pro-css3-shadows-action-and-more/11449/1 "2011-07-21T11:40:30Z")

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Hi all!

I’ve been using Walter’s CSS3 Shadow action to add shadows to boxes but it doesn’t have a couple of attributes that would make it even more versatile, namely the ability to add Spread in addition to Blur, this offsets the blur, but can also reduce the size of the blur if a negative number is used. Also the ability to have the shadow as either on the ouside of the the html box or on the inside using the Inset attribute.

I have updated Walter’s action to add these two features, so I can add inset shadows to html boxes without resorting to using the Extended dialogue box, and to refine the shadow using the spread attribute.

You can see it in action here:

[http://www.sbdesign.co.uk/css3shadows/](http://www.sbdesign.co.uk/css3shadows/)

Where you can also download the Freeway document which also contains the updated action, renamed CSS3 Shadow Extra.

I would like to thank Walter for producing so many useful actions that have really made using Freeway such a rewarding program to use.

I Hope you find the revised action useful.

Regads,

Steve

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**Author:** ![David\_McCallum](https://discourse.softpress.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ec9cab/32.png) [@David\_McCallum](https://discourse.softpress.com/u/David_McCallum)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 3:45pm UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/pro-css3-shadows-action-and-more/11449/2 "2011-07-21T15:45:16Z")

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Very nice Steve

David

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**Author:** ![Max\_Fancourt](https://discourse.softpress.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e19adc/32.png) [@Max\_Fancourt](https://discourse.softpress.com/u/Max_Fancourt)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 7:18pm UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/pro-css3-shadows-action-and-more/11449/3 "2011-07-21T19:18:20Z")

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Hi Steve this is a great improvement.  
As a future thought you or Walter may want to consider giving the user the ability to use RGBA colours so the actual shadows is transparent, the other improvement would be the choice of using a class as well as an ID as its hook, so the style can be reused by other items.  
Anyway just a thought.

all the best max

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**Author:** ![Justin\_Easthall](https://discourse.softpress.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/2acd7d/32.png) [@Justin\_Easthall](https://discourse.softpress.com/u/Justin_Easthall)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 8:17pm UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/pro-css3-shadows-action-and-more/11449/4 "2011-07-21T20:17:26Z")

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Nice one Steve. Awesome.

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**Author:** ![SteveB](https://discourse.softpress.com/user_avatar/discourse.softpress.com/steveb/32/2724_2.png) [@SteveB](https://discourse.softpress.com/u/SteveB)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 10:29pm UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/pro-css3-shadows-action-and-more/11449/5 "2011-07-21T22:29:32Z")

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Hi Max,

Thanks for the interest.

The ability to have transparency was something that I saw as a future possibility and I don’t think it would be too difficult to add an extra field.

Glad you find it useful.

As to the other idea of using a class and ID would need a bit more work to implement, but by no means impossible!

Best wishes,

Steve.

On 21 Jul 2011, at 20:18, max wrote:

> Hi Steve this is a great improvement.  
> As a future thought you or Walter may want to consider giving the user the ability to use RGBA colours so the actual shadows is transparent, the other improvement would be the choice of using a class as well as an ID as its hook, so the style can be reused by other items.  
> Anyway just a thought.
> 
> all the best max
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**Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 6:44am UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/pro-css3-shadows-action-and-more/11449/6 "2011-07-22T06:44:40Z")

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Good work! If you haven’t already, can you put it up on ActionsForge?

Joe

On 21 Jul 2011, at 23:29, Steve Ballinger wrote:

> Hi Max,
> 
> Thanks for the interest.
> 
> The ability to have transparency was something that I saw as a future possibility and I don’t think it would be too difficult to add an extra field.
> 
> Glad you find it useful.
> 
> As to the other idea of using a class and ID would need a bit more work to implement, but by no means impossible!
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Steve.
> 
> On 21 Jul 2011, at 20:18, max wrote:
> 
> > Hi Steve this is a great improvement.  
> > As a future thought you or Walter may want to consider giving the user the ability to use RGBA colours so the actual shadows is transparent, the other improvement would be the choice of using a class as well as an ID as its hook, so the style can be reused by other items.  
> > Anyway just a thought.
> > 
> > all the best max
> > 
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