CSS3 Text Effects

CSS3 text effects

Several new text features are included in CSS3.

In this chapter you will learn about the following text properties:

• text-shadow

• box-shadow

• text-overflow

• word-wrap

• word-break

Browser support

Property
text-shadow	4.0	10.0	3.5	4.0	9.5
box-shadow	10.0 4.0 -webkit-	9.0	4.0 3.5 -moz-	5.1 3.1 -webkit-	10.5
text-overflow	4.0	6.0	7.0	3.1	11.0 9.0 -o-
word-wrap	23.0	5.5	3.5	6.1	12.1
word-break	4.0	5.5	15.0	3.1	15.0

CSS3 text shadow

In CSS3, the text-shadow property applies to text shadows.

You specify the horizontal shadow, vertical shadow, blur distance, and shadow color:

Example

Add shadow to title:

h1
{
    text-shadow: 5px 5px 5px #FF0000;
}

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CSS3 box-shadow property

The CSS3 box-shadow property in CSS3 applies to box shadows

Example

div {
    box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px #888888;
}

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Next, add color to the shadow

Example

div {
    box-shadow: 10px 10px grey;
}

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Next, add a blur effect to the shadow

Example

div {
    box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px grey;
}

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You can also add shadow effects to the ::before and ::after pseudo-elements

Example

#boxshadow {
    position: relative;
    b ox-shadow: 1px 2px 4px rgba(0, 0, 0, .5);
    pa dding: 10px;
    bac kground: white;
} 
#boxshadow img {
     width: 100%;
     border: 1px solid #8a4419;
     border-style: inset;
} 
#boxshadow::after {
     content: '';
    position: absolute;
    z-index: -1; /* hide shadow behind image */
    box-shadow: 0 15px 20px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); 
    width: 70%; 
    left: 15%; /* one half of the remaining 30% */
    height: 100px;
    bottom: 0;
}

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A special case of using shadows is the card effect

Example

div.card {
    width: 250px;
    box-shadow: 0 4px 8px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2), 0 6px 20px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.19);
    text-align: center;
}

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CSS3 Text Overflow property

The CSS3 text-overflow property specifies how overflowing content should be displayed to the user

Example

p.test1 {
    white-space: nowrap; 
    width: 200px; 
    border: 1px solid #000000;
    overflow: hidden;
    text-overflow: clip; 
}
 
p.test2 {
    white-space: nowrap; 
    width: 200px; 
    border: 1px solid #000000;
    overflow: hidden;
    text-overflow: ellipsis; 
}

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CSS3 line breaks

If a word is too long to fit inside a region, it expands outside:

In CSS3, the word-wrap property allows you to force text to wrap - even if that means splitting it a word in the middle:

The CSS code is as follows:

Example

Allow long text to wrap:

p {word-wrap:break-word;}

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CSS3 word split line break

The CSS3 word-splitting newline property specifies the newline rule:

The CSS code is as follows:

Example

p.test1 {
    word-break: keep-all;
}
 
p.test2 {
    word-break: break-all;
}

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New text properties