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CSS Shadows

Shadows lift elements off the page with offset, blur and spread. Card and button shadows are the depth cues of flat design.


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

   h1
{

  text-shadow: 2px 2px;

}

Next, add a color to the shadow:

Text shadow effect!

Example

   h1
{

  text-shadow: 2px 2px red;

}

Then, add a blur effect to the shadow:

Text shadow effect!

Example

    h1
{

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

}

The following example shows a white text with black shadow:

Text shadow effect!

Example

    h1
{

  color: white;

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

}

The following example shows a red neon glow shadow:

Text shadow effect!

Example

   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

    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;
}

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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