CSS Shadow Effects
Box Shadow
With CSS you can create 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-shadowbox-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!
Next, add a color to the shadow:
Text shadow effect!
Then, add a blur effect to the shadow:
Text shadow effect!
The following example shows a white text with black shadow:
Text shadow effect!
The following example shows a red neon glow shadow:
Text shadow effect!
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!
The following example shows a white text with black, blue, and darkblue shadow:
Text shadow effect!
Example
h1
{
color: white;
text-shadow: 1px 1px 2px black, 0 0 25px blue, 0 0 5px darkblue;
}
Try it Yourself »
You can also use the text-shadow property to create a plain border around some text (without shadows):
Border around text!
Example
h1
{
color: yellow;
text-shadow: -1px 0 black, 0 1px
black, 1px 0 black, 0 -1px black;
}
Try it Yourself »
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:
Next, add a color to the shadow:
Next, add a blur effect to the shadow:
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;
}
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Cards
An example of using the box-shadow property to create paper-like
cards:
1
January 1, 2016
Hardanger, Norway
Example
div.card
{
width: 250px;
box-shadow: 0 4px 8px 0 rgba(0, 0,
0, 0.2), 0 6px 20px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.19);
text-align:
center;
}
Try it (Text Card) »
Try it (Image Card) »
Test Yourself with Exercises!
Exercise 1 » Exercise 2 » Exercise 3 » Exercise 4 » Exercise 5 »
CSS Shadow Properties
The following table lists the CSS shadow properties:
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| box-shadow | Adds one or more shadows to an element |
| text-shadow | Adds one or more shadows to a text |
