Shadows are really a nice way to give depth and 3-D look to any text. Generally, we use text-shadow to give shadow to the text but this shadow is short and to create long shadow (shadow in which text is visible like that of reflection) we have to use before selector and skew function.
Approach: The approach is to use a skew to create tilted text first and then use before to make the original text whose shadow was created using the skew function.
HTML Code: In this section, we have our text wrapped inside a h1 tag.
<!DOCTYPE html><html>
<head>
<title>Long Shadow Effect</title>
</head>
<body>
<div class="center">
<h1 data-title="GEEKS">GEEKS</h1>
</div>
</body>
</html>
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CSS Code: For CSS, follow the below given steps.
- Step 1: Apply a grayish background to the body.
- Step 2: Align the text to the center and use skew function over it.
- Step 3: Change the color of the skewed text to a slightly dark version of the background color.
- Step 4: Use before selector and set the content to the attribute value of h1 tag .
- Step 5: Now use the skew function with the same angle that of the original one but with negation.
Note: Make sure the skew angle is not more than 70deg and the angle used in “h1” tag styling and before selector are the same with one being the negative value of the other.
<style> body {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
background: rgb(122, 116, 116);
}
.center {
margin: 200px 0 0 350px;
}
h1 {
font-size: 6em;
color: rgba(0, 0, 0, .2);
position: absolute;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
transform-origin: bottom;
transform: skewX(50deg);
}
h1::before {
content: attr(data-title);
position: absolute;
color: #fff;
transform-origin: bottom;
transform: skewX(-50deg)
}
</style> |
Complete Code: It is the combination of the above two sections of code.
<!DOCTYPE html><html>
<head>
<title>Long Shadow Effect</title>
<style>
body {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
background: rgb(122, 116, 116);
}
.center {
margin: 200px 0 0 350px;
}
h1 {
font-size: 6em;
color: rgba(0, 0, 0, .2);
position: absolute;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
transform-origin: bottom;
transform: skewX(50deg);
}
h1::before {
content: attr(data-title);
position: absolute;
color: #fff;
transform-origin: bottom;
transform: skewX(-50deg)
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="center">
<h1 data-title="GEEKS">GEEKS</h1>
</div>
</body>
</html>
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Output: