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12.1 CSS 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:
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!
Example 1: Simple Text Shadow
h1 {
text-shadow: 2px 2px;
}
Next, add a color to the shadow:
Text shadow effect!
Example 2: Text shadow with color
h1 {
text-shadow: 1px -1px red;
}
Then, add a blur effect to the shadow:
Text shadow effect!
Example 3: Text shadow with blur effect
h1 {
text-shadow: 0 0 10px red;
}
The following example shows a white text with black shadow:
Text shadow effect!
Example 4: Text shadow on white text
h1 {
color: white;
text-shadow: 2px 2px 4px #000000;
}
The following example shows a red neon glow shadow:
Text shadow effect!
Example 5: Text shadow with red neon glow
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 6: Text shadow with red and blue neon glow
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 7: Another text shadow effect
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 8: Text shadow with border
h1 {
color: yellow;
text-shadow: -1px 0 black, 0 1px black, 1px 0 black, 0 -1px black;
}