CSS Text Effect
Text effects in CSS can enhance the visual appearance of text elements on a webpage. CSS provides various properties and techniques to apply text effects. By combining CSS properties, selectors, and pseudo-elements, you can create unique and visually appealing text effects to enhance the design of your web pages.
Here are some commonly used text effects in CSS:
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Text Shadow: The
text-shadow
property adds a shadow effect behind the text, allowing you to specify the color, blur radius, and position of the shadow. -
Text Outline: The
text-outline
property sets an outline around the text, creating a border-like effect. It can be customized with properties such as color, width, and style. -
Text Gradient: CSS gradients can be applied to text using the
background-clip
property with a value oftext
and a gradient applied to the background. This creates a gradient effect within the text. -
Text Fill and Stroke: The
fill
andstroke
properties, commonly used in SVG, can be applied to text in CSS. Thefill
property sets the color of the text, while thestroke
property creates an outline around the text. -
Text Animation: CSS animations can be applied to text to create dynamic and eye-catching effects. This can include animations for fading, sliding, rotating, or any other transformation applied to the text.
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Text Gradients: Using the
background-clip
property with a value oftext
and applying a gradient to the background, you can achieve a gradient effect within the text.