Text Shadow (and Effects)

Submitted by Yorkiebar on Monday, January 27, 2014 - 09:42.

Introduction: This page will be covering text shadows. What Are Text Shadows? Text Shadows are exactly what they sound like, it's a shadow around the text within the given area (element, class or id). This is similar to an outline, stroke or border. Structure: text-shadow: {horizontal size} {vertical size} {blur - optional} {colour}; Example:

text-shadow: 2px 2px 2px #FF0000;

Text Family: There are also many other text properties, however most of these are no longer supported in most/any of the major web browsers (Chrome, IE, FireFox, Opera and Safari)... hanging-punctuation - Specifies whether a punctuation character may be placed outside the line box. punctuation-trim - Specifies whether a punctuation character should be trimmed. text-align-last - Describes how the last line of a block or a line right before a forced line break is aligned when text-align is "justify". text-emphasis - Applies emphasis marks, and the foreground color of the emphasis marks, to the element's text. text-justify - Specifies the justification method used when text-align is "justify". text-outline - Specifies a text outline. text-overflow - Specifies what should happen when text overflows the containing element. text-shadow - Adds shadow to text. text-wrap - Specifies line breaking rules for text. word-break - Specifies line breaking rules for non-CJK scripts. word-wrap - Allows long, unbreakable words to be broken and wrap to the next line. Linking CSS To a HTML Element: To link your CSS to an HTML element (text, div, etc.) you will need to decide whether you want to use a class or id, you will also need a unique name. Once you have those, go to your element in HTML and add...

class='myClass'

... to the attributes of that element if you chose a class, or...

id='myID'

if you chose an id. Make sure you replace 'myClass' and/or 'myID' with your unique name. Then, in the CSS you will want to encase your properties with...

.myClass {
        //Properties go here
}

if you chose a class, or...

#myID {
        //Properties go here
}

(You can remove the line beginning with // if you wish). Here's an example...

<html>
        <head>
                <style>
                        .blur {
                                color: black;
                                width: 300px;
                                height: 100px;
                                text-shadow: 2px 2px 4px #000;
                                // Black shadow with black 4px blur.
                        }
                        .redShadow {
                                color: black;
                                width: 300px;
                                height: 100px;
                                text-shadow: 2px 2px #FF0000; //Could be text-shadow: 2px 2px 0px #FF0000;
                                // Red shadow with no blur.
                        }
                        .redShadowWithBlur {
                                color: black;
                                width: 300px;
                                height: 100px;
                                text-shadow: 2px 2px 4px #FF0000;
                                // Red shadow with 4px red blur.
                        }
                </style>
        </head>
        <body>
                <p class='blur'>This is text!</p>
                <p class='redShadow'>This is text!</p>
                <p class='redShadowWithBlur'>This is text!</p>
        </body>
</html>

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