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nlourenco

Hello! I'm trying to achieve this a liquid container div with a zig-zag border on the top and bottom with a drop shadow!

I'm familiar with creating an arrow div with a shadow and a zig-zag background, unfortunately the former method can't be repeatable and the latter method can't have a drop shadow applied to it and with both methods it can't be guaranteed that the edge's of the first and last triangle align flush with the containing box.

How best should I approach this?

Thanks!

Paulie_D

Pretty sure that whatever method you use a drop-shadow is going to be difficult...at least until the drop-shadow filter is fully supported.

Best as I can figure right now is a background image but that's not going to help with the alignment of the triangle thing you want.

nlourenco

Thanks, I think I'm going to have to settle for a background image on a div.

nlourenco

Following up, is it possible to only apply a drop shadow to the left and right sides of a div container?

Paulie_D

If you mean a box-shadow then yes but you have to use two....one to the left and one to the right.

http://codepen.io/joe/pen/syerD

tbwiii

You are going to get a little bleed on the top and bottom though

nlourenco

Yeah, unfortunately I see that.

I just created an image for the zig-zags on the top and bottom and for the middle a 1-pixel tall background image that spans the width of the div container:

  #container {
  min-height:461px;
  background-image: url("../images/wrapper-shadow.png");
  background-repeat: repeat-y;
  }

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[Solved] Liquid container div with zig-zag border