CSS Shadow Effects

CSS Shadow Effects

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

In this chapter you will learn about the following properties:

• text-shadow
• box-shadow

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 :

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;}

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;}

CSS box-shadow Property

The CSS box-shadow property applies shadow to elements.

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

This is a yellow <div> element with a black box-shadow

div {
    box-shadow: 10px 10px;}

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;}