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CSS Shadow Effects

With CSS you can create shadow effects!

CSS Text Shadow

The CSS

Formula

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

Horizontal and vertical shadow:

h1

{
text-shadow: 2px 2px;
}

Next, add a color to the shadow: Text shadow effect!

Example

Horizontal and vertical shadow, with color: h1

{
text-shadow: 2px 2px red;
}

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;
}

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;
}

The following example shows a red neon glow shadow: Text shadow effect!

Example

Text-shadow with red neon glow:

h1

{
text-shadow: 0 0 3px #ff0000;
}

Multiple Shadows

Formula

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 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 h1

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

Formula

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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