CSS SHADOW EFFECT
CSS shadow property is used to create shadow effect for HTML elements and texts.
These are CSS shadow properties:
1).CSS text shadow
The text-shadow property is used to apply shadow to the text.
Using text-shadow property you can add horizontal or vertical shadow with different color and blur radius.
This table summarizes use and properties of text-shadow:
Default value | none |
Inherited | Yes |
Animation | yes |
Applies to | all elements |
Version | CSS3 |
i).Simple text shadow
Syntax:
text-shadow: offset-x offset-y;
Output:
This paragraph has shadow property.
ii).Text shadow with different color
Syntax:
text-shadow: offset-x offset-y color;
Output:
This paragraph has blue shadow.
iii).Text shadow with different color and blur-radius
Syntax:
text-shadow: offset-x offset-y blur-radius color;
Output:
This paragraph has blue shadow with blur-radius 5px.
iv).Multiple shadow
Syntax:
text-shadow: shadow1,shadow2,shadow3...;
#Where shadow = offset-x offset-y blur-radius color
Output:
This paragraph has blue shadow with blur-radius 5px.
2).CSS box shadow
The box-shadow property is used to create shadow for elements.
CSS have the same property values for box-shadow as in text-shadow.
Output:
This is a div element.
Creating CSS box-shadow with blur effect.
Output:
This is a div element.