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DropShadow Filter

The DropShadow filter adds a solid silhouette (aka shadow) to a content, offset in the specified direction. Defined via IE's CSS filter property, here is its basic syntax:

Syntax:

filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.dropShadow(attribute1=value1, attribute2=value2, etc);

Syntax (post IE8):

-ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.dropShadow(attribute1=value1, attribute2=value2, etc)";

Note: See "Difference in syntax between pre IE8 and IE8+ browsers" for more info on the changes to the filter syntax in IE8+.

Example:

<style type="text/css">

#somediv{
width: 300px;
height: 300px;
background-color: black;
color: white;
-ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.dropShadow(color=gray,offX=5,offY=5, positive=true)";
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.dropShadow(color=gray,offX=5,offY=5, positive=true);
}

</style>


<div id="somediv">Some DIV</div>

Syntax via scripting:

//To define a new DropShadow filter on an element
object.style.filter ="progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.dropShadow(color=#00ff00,offX=5,offY=5)"

//To get/set a property within the DropShadow filter:
object.filters.item("DXImageTransform.Microsoft.dropShadow").Color=#FF0000;

When getting or setting a specific filter's attribute via scripting, you capitalize the attribute to turn it into a property.

Below lists the attributes/properties of the DropShadow filter:

DropShadow Filter attributes (properties)