filter in css

[magikern]

I saw this in a css file

.headline {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 14px;
font-weight: bold;
height: 14px;
width: 100%;
filter: Shadow(Color=#999999, Direction=120);
color: #000033;
}

Now it's only the "filter" that interests me because I can't get it to work properly in any other html, why is that. Acctually it looked pretty cool with the shadow.

[Till]

Dropshadow (not shadow) only works with IE5 and above, some rules you have to follow by:

• It will not work if used inside a table if there is a background color or image specified in the table, row or cell.
  workaround: just nest a table, <div> or <span> wherever you would like the drop shadow.
• A width attribute or any other Layout valid attribute is required for this effect to render.

Hope that helps!

Till

P.S.
The proper format for a CSS class is HTML-tag.CLASS-name { }, for example: div.headline { ... }, or span,div.headline { ... }.

[tthurgo]

I tried my ultimative CSS/DHTML/JavaScript/HTML reference, and I could not find one word about it. A new M$-enforced-standard?

Tom