# Suggestion regarding the box-shadow of the Dark Theme composer

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-regarding-the-box-shadow-of-the-dark-theme-composer/77102
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [2018年一月2日 09:52 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-regarding-the-box-shadow-of-the-dark-theme-composer/77102 "2018-01-02T09:52:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![tshenry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tshenry/32/119495_2.png) [@tshenry](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tshenry)
#### Post date: [2018年一月2日 09:52 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-regarding-the-box-shadow-of-the-dark-theme-composer/77102/1 "2018-01-02T09:52:34Z")

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This could just be an individual taste situation, but I noticed that the composer has a “white glow” when using the Dark Theme. It’s especially apparent when hiding the preview in the composer. I changed mine to a darker shadow and liked the result. Below is a comparison:

**Default**

 ![31 AM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/2/5/25bb3e60dbf202774bad85482fbcf82ed7817f63.png)

**Modified**

 ![15 AM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/0/1/01b80cc07fabc0a1f03e399848cc82d3dd82552d.png)

Here’s the change I made to the Dark Theme Desktop CSS:

```plaintext
div#reply-control {
   box-shadow: 0 -2px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);
}

```

This is a super nit-picky thing, but on the off chance anyone else felt the same way, I thought I’d share my solution 🙂

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2018年一月2日 10:23 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-regarding-the-box-shadow-of-the-dark-theme-composer/77102/2 "2018-01-02T10:23:40Z")

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Interesting, what do you think @awesomerobot?

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### Author: ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [2018年一月3日 02:28 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-regarding-the-box-shadow-of-the-dark-theme-composer/77102/3 "2018-01-03T02:28:49Z")

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This makes sense. It looks like most of our `box-shadow`s are defaulted to be black no matter the theme (see the header for example), so we should do that on the composer too.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2018年七月9日 06:50 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-regarding-the-box-shadow-of-the-dark-theme-composer/77102/4 "2018-07-09T06:50:41Z")

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Did we update this for the dark theme?

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### Author: ![Johani](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/johani/32/176920_2.png) [@Johani](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Johani)
#### Post date: [2018年七月9日 06:57 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-regarding-the-box-shadow-of-the-dark-theme-composer/77102/5 "2018-07-09T06:57:10Z")

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Yes, that was fixed here

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/73912ebc1223bf13d23ff0cfeb515e57ef2a6b18#diff-c3730d05192b6961c9a63d0672253b68](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/73912ebc1223bf13d23ff0cfeb515e57ef2a6b18#diff-c3730d05192b6961c9a63d0672253b68)

and further improved later here

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/677e126fbf5d681ef1666b119333b0a89480ba31#diff-c3730d05192b6961c9a63d0672253b68](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/677e126fbf5d681ef1666b119333b0a89480ba31#diff-c3730d05192b6961c9a63d0672253b68)

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2018年七月9日 07:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-regarding-the-box-shadow-of-the-dark-theme-composer/77102/6 "2018-07-09T07:04:30Z")

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