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Asked: 2026-05-17T15:59:50+00:00

so here is the problem i’m trying to solve, i want to use a

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so here is the problem i’m trying to solve, i want to use a background image that is 500px wide for my divs that has a drop shadow on the right edge however i want the text to stop and wrap after 475px and i still want the entire image to show up to include the dropshadow. is there anyway to accomplish this?

html code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
        <title>Untitled Document</title>
        <link href="tech/sandbox2.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    </head>
    <body>
        <div id="page1top">top</div>
        <div id="page1mid">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Donec sodales, sapien vel porttitor eleifend, dui ante rutrum ligula, sed volutpat urna sapien vitae nisl. Vestibulum iaculis ligula elit, in dapibus urna. Aenean ullamcorper varius porttitor. Etiam facilisis ipsum vitae nulla gravida convallis sollicitudin nibh gravida. Fusce in turpis magna, at tempus lorem. Nulla sed mi libero. Aenean vulputate ultricies enim, sit amet vulputate arcu condimentum sed. Duis arcu metus, lobortis nec commodo non, suscipit semper lectus. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Phasellus sit amet condimentum elit. Nullam interdum elit sapien. Curabitur lorem ligula, aliquam quis rhoncus ac, egestas vitae tellus. Phasellus quis massa quis eros gravida mollis posuere nec mi.</div>
        <div id="page1btm">this is the bottom</div>
    </body>
</html>

css code:

@charset "UTF-8";
/* CSS Document */

#page1top{
    position:relative;
    background:url(../media/page1top.png) no-repeat;
    width:500px;
}
#page1mid{
    position:relative;
    background:url(../media/page1mid.png) repeat;
    overflow:visible;
    width:500px;
    height:auto;
    padding:30;
    margin:30;
    top:-10;
}
#page1btm{
    position:relative;
    width:500px;
    background:url(../media/page1btm.png) no-repeat;
}
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  1. Editorial Team

    Use nested <div> tags. While @Robusto’s suggestion is not incorrect, it is not semantically desirable. It mixes a design element with a style descriptor. Your block elements should determine such design spacing, and then use your element styles to control the margin/padding of the text itself.

    CSS:

    #page1top{ 
    position:relative; 
    background:url(../media/page1top.png) no-repeat; 
    width:500px; 
} 
#page1mid{ 
    position:relative; 
    background:url(../media/page1mid.png) repeat; 
    overflow:visible; 
    width:500px; 
    height:auto; 
    padding:30; 
    margin:30; 
    top:-10; 
} 
#page1btm{ 
    position:relative; 
    width:500px; 
    background:url(../media/page1btm.png) no-repeat; 
} 
.content_container{ 
    width: 475px;
    overflow: inherit;
}

    HTML:

    <div id="page1top">top</div> 
<div id="page1mid">
    <div class="content_container">
        <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Donec sodales, sapien vel porttitor eleifend, dui ante rutrum ligula, sed volutpat urna sapien vitae nisl. Vestibulum iaculis ligula elit, in dapibus urna. Aenean ullamcorper varius porttitor. Etiam facilisis ipsum vitae nulla gravida convallis sollicitudin nibh gravida. Fusce in turpis magna, at tempus lorem. Nulla sed mi libero. Aenean vulputate ultricies enim, sit amet vulputate arcu condimentum sed. Duis arcu metus, lobortis nec commodo non, suscipit semper lectus. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Phasellus sit amet condimentum elit. Nullam interdum elit sapien. Curabitur lorem ligula, aliquam quis rhoncus ac, egestas vitae tellus. Phasellus quis massa quis eros gravida mollis posuere nec mi.</p>
    </div>
</div> 
<div id="page1btm">this is the bottom</div>
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