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CSS Shadow Effects
With CSS you can add shadow to text and to elements.
In these chapters 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;
}

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Next, add a color to the shadow:
Text shadow effect!

Example

h1
{
  text-shadow: 2px 2px red;
}

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Then, add a blur effect to the shadow:
Text shadow effect!

Example

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

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The following example shows a white text with black shadow:
Text shadow effect!

Example

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

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The following example shows a red neon glow shadow:
Text shadow effect!

Example

h1
{
  text-shadow: 0 0 3px #FF0000;
}

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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!

Example

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 darkblue shadow:
Text shadow effect!

Example

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

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You can also use the text-shadow property to create a plain border around
some text (without shadows):
Border around text!

Example

h1
{  color: coral;  text-shadow: -1px 0 black, 0 1px
black, 1px 0 black, 0 -1px black;}

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Reference: https://www.w3schools.com/css/css3_shadows.asp