Shadow Effects

CSS Shadow Effects

You may add shadows to components and text using CSS.

You will study about the following attributes in these chapters:

Text can be shadowed using the CSS text-shadow property.

The only shadows you provide when using it in its most basic form are the vertical (2px) and horizontal (2px) shadows:

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

Next, add a color to the shadow:

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

Then, add a blur effect to the shadow:

				
					h1 {
  text-shadow: 2px 2px 5px red;
}

The following example shows a white text with black shadow:

				
					h1 {
  color: white;
  text-shadow: 2px 2px 4px #000000;
}

The following example shows a red neon glow shadow:

				
					h1 {
  text-shadow: 0 0 3px #FF0000;
}

You can add a list of shadows separated by commas to the text in order to add more than one shadow.

An example of a red and blue neon glow shadow may be seen below:

				
					h1 {
  text-shadow: 0 0 3px #FF0000, 0 0 5px #0000FF;
}

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

				
					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):