# CSS layout advice please

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/css-layout-advice-please/261946>\
**Category:** web dev\
**Created:** [June 2, 2008, 2:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/css-layout-advice-please/261946 "2008-06-02T02:37:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![the\_slayer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b4bc9f/32.png) [@the\_slayer](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/the_slayer)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2008, 2:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/css-layout-advice-please/261946/1 "2008-06-02T02:37:33Z")

</div>

hiya ppl!

I am pretty new to CSS so i am constanly finding situations where i am unsure of the best way to structure the css for a design.

Here is one i am not sure about… the white area needs to be scalable in height and the shadow would need to follow…

any advice please!

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![fasterthanlight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecc23a/32.png) [@fasterthanlight](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fasterthanlight)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2008, 2:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/css-layout-advice-please/261946/2 "2008-06-02T14:57:52Z")

</div>

put the white + drop shadow as one background image to your page.

[http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fauxcolumns/](http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fauxcolumns/)