I have the main content area ("bodyrow") removed from the header by using this css for one of the horizontal bars in the header:

height: 125px;
background: transparent !important;

In that 125px space is a graphic (code in the Header Image screen). Anyway, that's not important...

... what I'm trying to do is apply a box-shadow to tr id=bodyrow.

Is this possible? Nothing I have tried has worked. The drop shadow goes all the way up the page.

Thanks in advance for your time.

Do you have a link to the site. It would be guessing without seeing what is going on? Also what is the code you are using and where did you put it?

Here it is:

http://174.120.254.130/~abaorg/blog/

Messing around with it more, I was able to get what I wanted ... although the widths of the elements are thrown off just a bit ... most likely because I need to take padding into account ... I think. Here's what worked (placed in CSS inserts):

tr#bodyrow {
box-shadow: 0 0 10px #000000;
-moz-box-shadow: 0 0 10px #000000;
display: block;
width: 1088px;
}

td#right {
width: 300px;
}

td#middle {
width: 788px;
}

... I still have some tweaking to do. I learned that if I just use the first style without any widths, it renders the tr#bodyrow narrower, by the width of the sidebar. So I needed to add the widths for the td elements ... but now the overall layout is a bit too wide (most likely by the amount of the combined padding) ... so I still need to mess with it.

Any suggestions on doing this better, more cleanly or efficiently are greatly appreciated.

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please note that this is still way under construction, and the styling in the sidebars and posts is not yet complete.

Because there is no element that contains just the middle and footer setting a box shadow on just those two items is problematic. If what you did works for you then you are all set.