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The text-shadow property adds shadow to text.

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

In addition, you can add a shadow color and blur effect.

Text shadow effect!

Example

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

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Example

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

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Then, add a blur effect (5px) to the shadow:

Example

Formatted code

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

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Example

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

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Example

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h1 {
  text-shadow: 0 0 3px #ff0000;
}

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The text-shadow property also accepts multiple shadows for an element. Define each shadow in a comma-separated list.

The following example shows a red and blue neon glow shadow:

Example

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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 red neon glow:

Example

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h1 {
  color: white;
  text-shadow: 1px 1px 2px black, 0 0 25px blue, 0
  0 5px red;
}

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Tip

Go to our CSS Fonts chapter to learn about how to change fonts, text size and the style of a text.

Tip

Go to our CSS Text Effects chapter to learn about different text effects.

Property	Description
text-shadow	Specifies the shadow effect added to text