HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS

B.115. text-shadow

This property lets you create drop-shadow effects behind text. A drop-shadow is a copy of the text rendered behind the actual text of the element, usually offset from the element's position and in a different color, and possibly blurred, which simulates light hitting the text and casting a shadow against the element's background. This property lets you create multiple drop-shadows for a single piece of text to simulate multiple light sources.

Inherited: No

B.115.1. Value

The syntax for this is as shown here:

text-shadow: color
					xOffset
					yOffset
					blurRadius, color
					xOffset
					yOffset
					blurRadius …

Each shadow is declared in a comma-separated sequence from bottom to top (i.e. the shadow declared last will be rendered over all the ...