Box Shadow on table row not appearing on certain browsers

As previously mentioned, box-shadow property works only with elements that have display: block or display:inline-block property.

If you'll add display: block to the table cell as a general styling rule, it will collapse, since automatic width/height proportions that cells had with display:table won't be applied anymore. To simulate that behavior just assign min-width attribute to each th and td.

Then apply box-shadow to the row (on hover or without).

In summary, your code should look like this:

table { box-sizing: border-box; }
td, th { padding-left: 16px; min-width: 170px; text-align: left; }
tr { display: block; }
tr:hover { box-shadow: 0px 2px 18px 0px rgba(0,0,0,0.5); cursor: pointer; }

I've omitted vendor prefixes for simplicity.

Here is the full example:

table {
  box-sizing: border-box;
  border-bottom: 1px solid #e8e8e8;
}
td,
th {
  padding-left: 16px;
  min-width: 170px;
  border: 1px solid #e8e8e8;
  border-bottom: none;
  font: 14px/40px;
  text-align: left;
}
td {
  color: #666;
}
tr {
  display: block;
}
th {
  color: #333;
}
tr:hover {
  background-color: #fbfbfb;
  box-shadow: 0px 2px 18px 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);
  cursor: pointer;
}
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th>Phone number</th>
      <th>Date</th>
      <th>Name</th>
      <th>Label</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>0342443</td>
      <td>10 August 2013</td>
      <td>Kate</td>
      <td>Loves cats</td>
      </td>
      <tr>
        <td>0342442</td>
        <td>9 August 2013</td>
        <td>Mary</td>
        <td>Boring</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>0342441</td>
        <td>8 August 2013</td>
        <td>Anna</td>
        <td>Loves extreme stuff</td>
      </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

You can also check out the fiddle here.


Use transform scale(1,1) property with box-shadow it will solve the problem.

tr:hover {
  transform: scale(1);
  -webkit-transform: scale(1);
  -moz-transform: scale(1);
  box-shadow: 0px 0px 5px rgba(0,0,0,0.3);
  -webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 5px rgba(0,0,0,0.3);
  -moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 5px rgba(0,0,0,0.3);
}

Fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/ampicx/5p91xr48/

Thanks!!


Please star this bug if you want to see it get fixed:

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=94871

If you want the table cell widths to continue to adjust themselves automatically, you can apply the shadow to the individual cells instead:

td:first-child {
  box-shadow:
    inset 0px 11px 8px -10px blue,
    inset 0px -11px 8px -10px blue,
    inset 11px 0px 8px -10px blue; 
}
td {
  box-shadow:
    inset 0px 11px 8px -10px blue,
    inset 0px -11px 8px -10px blue;
}
td:last-child {
  box-shadow:
    inset 0px 11px 8px -10px blue,
    inset 0px -11px 8px -10px blue,
    inset -11px 0px 8px -10px blue; 
}

Full example here. (jsfiddle)

(Inspired by https://stackoverflow.com/a/10150898/724752)

In each box shadow value:

  • Adjust the 3rd number (blur radius) to change the blur radius.
  • The 4th number (spread radius) must always be negative and its absolute value must be greater than the 3rd number (blur radius).
  • Make the 1st number (offset x) nonzero to get a shadow on the left or right. Make its absolute value 1 greater than the absolute value of the 4th number (see the example above again, much easier to see what I mean).
  • Make the 2nd number (offset y) nonzero to get a shadow at top or bottom. Make its absolute value 1 greater than the absolute value of the 4th number.

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