CSS Shadow Effects
Shadows
With CSS you can create shadow effects!
CSS Text Shadow
The CSS text-shadow property applies
a shadow to text.
In its simplest use, you only specify the horizontal and the vertical shadow.
In addition, you can add a shadow color and blur effect.
Text shadow effect!
Next, add a color to the shadow:
Text shadow effect!
Example
Horizontal and vertical shadow, with color:
h1
{
text-shadow: 2px 2px red;
}
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Then, add a blur effect to the shadow:
Text shadow effect!
Example
Horizontal and vertical shadow, with color and blur effect:
h1
{
text-shadow: 2px 2px 5px red;
}
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The following example shows a white text with black shadow:
Text shadow effect!
Example
Text-shadow on a white text:
h1
{
color: white;
text-shadow: 2px 2px 4px #000000;
}
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The following example shows a red neon glow shadow:
Text shadow effect!
Multiple Shadows
To add more than one shadow to the text, you can add a comma-separated list of shadows.
The following example shows a red and blue neon glow shadow:
Text shadow effect!
The following example shows a white text with black, blue, and darkblue shadow:
Text shadow effect!
Example
h1
{
color: white;
text-shadow: 1px 1px 2px black, 0 0 25px blue, 0 0 5px darkblue;
}
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You can also use the text-shadow property to create a plain border around some text (without shadows):
Border around text!
Example
h1
{
color: coral;
text-shadow: -1px 0 black, 0 1px
black, 1px 0 black, 0 -1px black;
}
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