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CSS

Posted by Anthony Lockett
Anthony Lockett
24,266 Points

Nav Link Box Shadow

Does anyone know how to apply a box shadow to a nav link? Every time I try it puts a box around the a link and applies the box shadow to that, instead of the text itself which is what i'm looking for.

Steve Dirsa
Steve Dirsa
12,584 Points

Assuming the link is text, try text-shadow.

nav ul li {
    text-shadow: 1px 1px #888;
}

2 Answers

Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points

Hi Anthony,

The box-shadow property isn't designed for text, instead what you're looking for is the text-shadow property which I've linked to below.

The main difference is box-shadow applies to the entire outside/inside of a block level container whereas text-shadow applies only to the text node and nothing outside of it.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/text-shadow

Anthony Lockett
Anthony Lockett
24,266 Points
Anthony Lockett
Anthony Lockett
24,266 Points

thanks! I just realized that before looking at this, thanks for the quick reply!