Text Shadow Generator

CSS text-shadow adds shadow effects to text. You specify horizontal offset, vertical offset, blur radius, and colour. Multiple shadows can be comma-separated to create layered effects like neon glows, 3D depth, or outlines.

Yes. The CSS text-shadow property accepts multiple comma-separated shadow values. This generator lets you add up to 5 layers, each with independent offset, blur, colour, and opacity controls. Multiple layers create effects like neon glow, fire, retro stacking, and outlined text.

Tailwind CSS does not include text-shadow utilities by default. You can use arbitrary value syntax like [text-shadow:2px_2px_4px_rgba(0,0,0,0.3)] as a class name. This generator produces the correct Tailwind arbitrary value syntax you can paste directly into your markup.

Simple text shadows have negligible performance impact. Complex multi-layer shadows with large blur values on large amounts of text can cause repaint overhead. For critical performance paths, keep blur values moderate and avoid applying heavy shadows to frequently animated text.

CSS text-shadow has been supported in all major browsers since IE10. It works in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, and all modern mobile browsers. No vendor prefixes are needed.

Text-shadow applies shadow effects to the actual letterforms of text content. Box-shadow applies shadow effects to the rectangular bounding box of an element. Text-shadow does not support the inset keyword or spread radius that box-shadow supports.

Yes. Text-shadow is animatable with CSS transitions and keyframe animations. However, animating complex multi-layer shadows can be performance-heavy. For smooth animations, prefer animating opacity or colour changes rather than blur or offset values.