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Help to make look material design
11 replies · Started by William on July 16, 2020
Hi there,
I really like the fact the content wrapper has a material design look to it on post pages like this. Is there a way to give a material design to affect the dark purple area on the site?
Kind regards,
Will
Hi there,m
What do you mean by material design?
Hi there,
Material design is a new approach to making things with shadows/layers etc.
There's good information on here, and all the big tech giants are pushing for material design all the time:
Sorry I'm not really sure what I'm looking at here.
Can you be a little more specific and let me know what exactly you'd like to add to the dark purple area here?
Adding shadows?
Hi Leo,
Sorry for being vague. I think the 'Material' design would include CSS on areas such as:
- Box shadows to show hierarchy. To shadows to show that the dark purple element is above the light purple area
- increase the length of the purple area so that the content wrapper appears above the dark purple area
I hope that makes sense?
Try this CSS for shadow:
.page-hero {
-webkit-box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px 0px rgba(0,0,0,0.75);
-moz-box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px 0px rgba(0,0,0,0.75);
box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px 0px rgba(0,0,0,0.75);
}
That's the idea! But could it have a shadow around the whole of the dark purple element similar in style to how it is in the content wrapper?
Have you tried tweaking the shadow with the cssmatic website I linked above?
Or am I missing something?
Hi there,
I have thank you - the bottom looks good. However, for the top of the element and menu it does not have similar shadow?

Hmm I don't see a way to apply a shadow following that outline you've shown above unfortunately.
There is no way to include the shadow from the bottom of the menu link:
https://www.screencast.com/t/YdVBWUp2
Okay, thank you very much for helping anyway!
No problem :)