How to Apply Shadow Effect on Text Using CSS ?

Last Updated : 30 May, 2023

In this article, we will learn how to Apply the Shadow Effect on Text Using CSS. The text-shadow property of CSS is used to apply the shadow effect on text.

Approach: The text-shadow property of CSS is used to apply the shadow effect on text. It takes four values vertical_shadow, horizontal_shadow, blur, and color. All the details of the properties that text-shadow properties take are below:

vertical_shadow: It is the position of the shadow of the text vertically.
horizontal_shadow: It is the position of the shadow of the text horizontally.
blur: It is the value of how much blur shadow we want. It is optional.
color: It is the color of the shadow.

Syntax:

text-shadow: vertical_shadow horizontal_shadow blur color;

Example 1: In this example, we are using the above-explained approach.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <title>
        How to specify the width, style,
        and color of the rule between columns?
    </title>
    <style>
        .gfg1 {
            font-size: 50px;
            color: rgb(3, 177, 3);
            text-shadow: 2px 2px red;
        }
 
        .gfg2 {
            font-size: 50px;
            color: rgb(3, 177, 3);
            text-shadow: 30px 30px red;
        }
    </style>
</head>
 
<body>
    <h1 style="margin: 10% 20%;" class="gfg1">GeeksforGeeks</h1>
    <h1 style="margin: 10% 20%;" class="gfg2">GeeksforGeeks</h1>
</body>
</html>

Output:

Before applying text-shadow property:

After applying text-shadow property:

Example 2: This example shows you how the blur value works in the text-shadow property.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <title>
        How to specify the width, style,
        and color of the rule between columns?
    </title>
    <style>
        .gfg1 {
            font-size: 50px;
            color: rgb(3, 177, 3);
            text-shadow: 2px 2px 4px red;
        }
 
        .gfg2 {
            font-size: 50px;
            color: rgb(3, 177, 3);
            text-shadow: 30px 30px 4px red;
        }
    </style>
</head>
 
<body>
    <h1 style="margin: 10% 20%;" class="gfg1">GeeksforGeeks</h1>
    <h1 style="margin: 10% 20%;" class="gfg2">GeeksforGeeks</h1>
</body>
</html>