CSS Shadow Effects
Shadows
With CSS you can create shadow effects!
CSS Shadow Effects
With CSS you can add shadow to text and to elements.
In these chapters you will learn about the following properties:
text-shadowbox-shadow
CSS Text Shadow
The CSS text-shadow property applies shadow to text.
In its simplest use, you only specify the horizontal shadow (2px) and the vertical shadow (2px):
Text shadow effect!
Next, add a color to the shadow:
Text shadow effect!
Then, add a blur effect to the shadow:
Text shadow effect!
The following example shows a white text with black shadow:
Text shadow effect!
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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