Box-Shadow on the left side of the element only

You probably need more blur and a little less spread.

box-shadow: -10px 0px 10px 1px #aaaaaa;

Try messing around with the box shadow generator here http://css3generator.com/ until you get your desired effect.

This question is very, very, very old, but as a trick in the future, I recommend something like this:

.element{
    box-shadow: 0px 0px 10px #232931;
}
.container{
    height: 100px;
    width: 100px;
    overflow: hidden;
}

Basically, you have a box shadow and then wrapping the element in a div with its overflow set to hidden. You'll need to adjust the height, width, and even padding of the div to only show the left box shadow, but it works. See here for an example If you look at the example, you can see how there's no other shadows, but only a black left shadow. Edit: this is a retake of the same screen shot, in case some one thinks that I just cropped out the right. You can find it here

box-shadow: inset 10px 0 0 0 red;