box-shadow on top of children

css, html

Solution

cant be done directly from css.. (it is not shadow if it goes above overlapping elements)

you would need to rework your html a bit by adding a div (or use a pseudo element as suggested by miguelcobain's answer) to overlay the shadow and your CSS to make the new div have the shadow..

#chatroom {
  border: 1px solid #CCC;
  height: 135px;
  font-size: 0.75em;
  line-height: 1.2em;
  overflow: auto;
  position: relative;
}

.shadow {
  position: absolute;
  left: 0px;
  top: 0px;
  right: 0px;
  bottom: 0px;
  -moz-box-shadow: inset 0 0px 4px rgba(0, 0, 0, .55);
  -webkit-box-shadow: inset 0 0px 4px rgba(0, 0, 0, .55);
  box-shadow: inset 0 0px 4px rgba(0, 0, 0, .55);
}

.chatmessage {
  padding: 4px 2px;
}

.chatmessage b {
  margin-right: 2px;
}

.chatmessage:nth-child(2n) {
  background: #EEE;
}

<div id="chatroom">
  <div class="chatmessage"><b>User 1:</b>Test</div>
  <div class="chatmessage"><b>User 2:</b>Test</div>
  <div class="chatmessage"><b>User 1:</b>Test</div>
  <div class="chatmessage"><b>User 2:</b>Test</div>
  <div class="shadow"></div>
</div>

Problem

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