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CSS 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

Formatted code
h1 {
  text-shadow: 2px 2px;
}

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Text shadow effect!

Example

Formatted code
h1 {
  text-shadow: 2px 2px red;
}

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Then, add a blur effect to the shadow:

Text shadow effect!

Example

Formatted code
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

Formatted code
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!

Example

Formatted code
h1 {
  text-shadow: 0 0 3px #ff0000;
}

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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

Formatted code
h1 {
  text-shadow: 0 0 3px #ff0000, 0 0 5px #0000ff;
}

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

Text shadow effect!

Example

Formatted code
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

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

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1. CSS Rounded Corners2. Sass Tutorial3. CSS Border Images4. CSS Multiple Backgrounds5. CSS Background Size6. CSS Background Origin7. CSS Background Clip8. CSS Colors9. CSS Color Keywords10. CSS Gradients11. CSS Radial Gradients12. CSS Conic Gradients13. CSS Shadow Effects14. CSS Box Shadow15. CSS Text Effects16. CSS Custom Fonts17. CSS 2D Transforms18. CSS 2D Transform Scale19. CSS 2D Transform Skew / Matrix20. CSS 3D Transforms21. CSS Transitions22. CSS Transition Timing23. CSS Animations24. CSS Animation Timing25. CSS Animation Properties26. CSS Tooltip27. CSS Tooltip Arrows28. CSS Styling Images29. CSS Image Effects30. CSS Image Hover Overlays31. CSS Responsive Modal Images32. CSS Centering Images33. CSS Image Filter Effects34. CSS Image Shapes35. CSS object-fit Property36. CSS object-position Property37. CSS Masking38. CSS Gradient Mask Layers39. CSS SVG Mask Layers40. CSS Styling Buttons41. CSS Button Hover Effects42. CSS Button Groups43. CSS Pagination Styles44. CSS Multiple Columns45. CSS Column Rules46. CSS User Interface47. CSS Variables - var() Function48. CSS Overriding Variables49. CSS Variables and JavaScript50. CSS Variables in Media Queries51. CSS @property Rule52. CSS Box Sizing53. CSS Media Queries

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