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CSS CSS Basics (2014) Enhancing the Design With CSS Text Shadows

Teacher Russell
Teacher Russell
16,873 Points
Posted by Teacher Russell
Teacher Russell
16,873 Points

text shadows on google

I was practicing headers, using text shadows/radients, etc from the lessons, and had no problems. I had a title that looked cool when I opened it in Internet Explorer, and when I opened it in Google, the text-shadow was gone. Very strange. Anyone have any experience like that? I would expect Google to recognize text-shadows. Again, the text shadow was on IE, just the way I wrote it. The background and everything else was fine on Google. Just the text-shadow on my h1 was missing.

2 Answers

jacobproffer
jacobproffer
24,604 Points

Hey Russell,

Can you post your css?

jacobproffer
jacobproffer
24,604 Points

Hey Russell,

I would refer to the MDN documentation for the text-shadow property.

The issue here is that you're passing in five values. By removing 3px, for example, your text-shadow will re-appear.

Incorrect:

.example {
    text-shadow: -5px 5px 5px 3px #edefaa;
}

Correct:

.example {
    text-shadow: -5px 5px 5px #edefaa;
}

The structure is: offset-x | offset-y | blur-radius | color

Best, Jacob

Teacher Russell
Teacher Russell
16,873 Points
Teacher Russell
Teacher Russell
16,873 Points

The other value was spread, I thought. It shows on IE. I guess I'm really wondering why it shows on IE and not on Google.

Jeff Sanders
PLUS
Jeff Sanders
Courses Plus Student 9,503 Points
Jeff Sanders
Jeff Sanders
Courses Plus Student 9,503 Points

There is no spread value for text-shadow. https://www.sitepoint.com/mastering-css3-text-shadows/