Digital World Faisalabad: CSS3 Shadow Effects

Monday, 7 August 2017

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

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.

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):

Example

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

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Next, add a color to the shadow:

Example

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

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Then, add a blur effect to the shadow:

Example

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

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The following example shows a white text with black shadow:

Example

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

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The following example shows a red neon glow shadow:

Example

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:

Example

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:

Example

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):

Example

h1 {
color: yellow;
text-shadow: -1px 0 black, 0 1px black, 1px 0 black, 0 -1px black;
}

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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:

Example

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

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Next, add a color to the shadow:

Example

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

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Next, add a blur effect to the shadow:

Example

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

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You can also add shadows to the ::before and ::after pseudo-elements, to create an interesting effect:

Example

#boxshadow {
position: relative;
box-shadow: 1px 2px 4px rgba(0, 0, 0, .5);
padding: 10px;
background: white;
}
#boxshadow img {
width: 100%;
border: 1px solid #8a4419;
border-style: inset;
}
#boxshadow::after {
content: '';
position: absolute;
z-index: -1; /* hide shadow behind image */
box-shadow: 0 15px 20px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);
width: 70%;
left: 15%; /* one half of the remaining 30% */
height: 100px;
bottom: 0;
}