CSS3 Shadow Effects

CSS3 Shadow Effects

With CSS3 you can add shadow to text and to elements.

In this chapter you will learn about the following properties:

• text-shadow
• box-shadow

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Browser Support

The numbers in the table specify the first browser version that fully supports the property.

Numbers followed by -webkit- or -moz- specifies the first version that worked with a prefix.

Property
text-shadow	10.0	4.0	3.5	4.0	9.5
box-shadow	9.0	10.0 4.0 -webkit-	4.0 3.5 -moz-	5.1 3.1 -webkit-	10.5

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CSS3 Text Shadow

The CSS3 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!

h1 {
    text-shadow: 2px 2px;
}

Next, add a color to the shadow:

Text shadow effect!

h1 {
    text-shadow: 2px 2px red;
}

Then, add a blur effect to the shadow:

Text shadow effect!

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

The following example shows a white text with black shadow:

Text shadow effect!

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

The following example shows a red neon glow shadow:

Text shadow effect!

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!

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!

h1 {
    color: white;
    text-shadow: 1px 1px 2px black, 0 0 25px blue, 0 0 5px darkblue;
}

CSS3 box-shadow Property

The CSS3 box-shadow property applies shadow to elements.

In its simplest use, you only specify the horizontal shadow and the vertical shadow:

div {
    box-shadow: 10px 10px;
}

Next, add a color to the shadow:

div {
    box-shadow: 10px 10px grey;
}

Next, add a blur effect to the shadow:

div {
    box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px grey;
}