CSS AdvancedLesson #127

CSS Shadows

With CSS you can create shadow effects!

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!

Example

Example Code

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{

  text-shadow: 2px 2px;

}

Next, add a color to the shadow:

Text shadow effect!

Example

Example Code

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h1
{

  text-shadow: 2px 2px red;

}

Then, add a blur effect to the shadow:

Text shadow effect!

Example

Example Code

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h1
{

  text-shadow: 2px 2px 5px red;

}

The following example shows a white text with black shadow:

Text shadow effect!

Example

Example Code

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h1
{

  color: white;

  text-shadow: 2px 2px 4px #000000;

}

The following example shows a red neon glow shadow:

Text shadow effect!

Example

Example Code

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h1
{

  text-shadow: 0 0 3px #ff0000;

}

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!

Example

Example Code

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h1
{

  text-shadow: 0 0 3px #ff0000, 0 0 5px #0000ff;

}

The following example shows a white text with black, blue, and darkblue shadow:

Text shadow effect!

Example

Example Code

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h1
{
  color: white;

  text-shadow: 1px 1px 2px black, 0 0 25px blue, 0 0 5px darkblue;
}

You can also use the text-shadow property to create a plain border around some text (without shadows):

Border around text!

Example

Example Code

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h1
{
  color: coral;
  text-shadow: -1px 0 black, 0 1px
    black, 1px 0 black, 0 -1px black;
}


Interactive Code Examples

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