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Layered Paper

<div class="layered-paper">
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</div>
.layered-paper {
    background: #eee;
    box-shadow:
        0 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.15), /* The top layer shadow */
        0 10px 0 -5px #eee, /* The second layer */
        0 10px 1px -4px rgba(0,0,0,0.15), /* The second layer shadow */
        0 20px 0 -10px #eee, /* The third layer */
        0 20px 1px -9px rgba(0,0,0,0.15); /* The third layer shadow */
}

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  1. Kriti Sharma

    really nice designing with css

  2. Amazing effect! now my facebook fanbox has a layered effect…!

  3. I did something just like this the other day! After using box-shadow for this effect, I had a world of brainstorms-a-comin’ for more uses. Here’s a little screenshot of my use. Sorry – I can’t show more than this right now!

  4. Nice effect.

    Here’s a blogpost of a ‘paper stack’ I created last March using CSS3 -

    http://alwaystwisted.com/post.php?s=2011-03-06-creating-a-css3-paper-stack

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