I have a panel which can be expanded or minimised through a vertically centred link with a < or > symbol as the link text. At font-weight: 900 this does not stand out much, even with a large grey background around it. I do not want to use an image and, at the current font size, both symbols currently take up the maximum width of the panel.
Is there any way to thicken the line on the symbols beyond 900? Or is there another alternative I could use?
Thanks in advance.
Richard
In CSS 3 there's another way to make the font size bolder:
color:#888888;
text-shadow: 2px 0 #888888;
letter-spacing:2px;
font-weight:bold;
EDIT:
For some sort of weird reason this doesn't look as pretty as it did over an year ago. It only works with text-shadow of 1px (on most common fonts, other thicker fonts might still work with 2px). And with text-shadow of only 1px, there's no need for such a large letter-spacing.
color:#888888;
text-shadow: 1px 0 #888888;
letter-spacing:1px;
font-weight:bold;
To add to Gogutz answer, you can go even bolder by stacking up the text-shadows in a grid. Comma separate each on the line:
.extra-bold {
text-shadow: 0px 1px, 1px 0px, 1px 1px;
}
You can use text-shadow instead of font-weight
text-shadow: 0px 1px, 1px 0px, 1px 0px;
Unfortunately there's no font-weight thicker than 900, and specifying font-weight by number varies across browsers. Your best bet would be to use a thicker font - you haven't specified what you're using, but Impact is relatively thick and tall for its width while being web-safe. Otherwise you could use #font-face to load in a different font.
Adding to Gogutz answer. You can use the currentcolor keyword to use the color of the text and avoid hardcoding it.
Like this:
text-shadow: 0.5px 0 currentColor;
letter-spacing: 0.5px;
This is quite thick. But works only with webkit.
font-size: -webkit-xxx-large;
font-weight: 900;
Related
As the title suggests, I'm trying to add font borders to the text I have in a page I'm making. The background has a lot of reds, greens, yellows and blacks so a single colour really wouldn't suffice. Here is the code.
I know I can do something with webkit like this:
h1 { -webkit-text-stroke: 1px black; }
But since it's not supported on browsers I'm stuck on square one.
Can anyone help me?
For a 1 pixel stroke, text-shadow would do:
text-shadow: 0 0 1px black;
Using
You can only use text-stroke on webkit browsers (Chrome, safari, etc)
Source: caniuse.com
But like other poeple answered, you can use text-shadow instead
p {
text-shadow: 0 0 1px black;
}
FIDDLE
http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/text-shadow.en.html
see this link may help
it adds text shadow to letters if you dont want feather then keep value to 0px will give you border around text
Assuming I have a set font color that I must maintain, and that it overlays content that can be of any color, how can I make sure the font is readable no matter what it's overlaying?
Here is a jsFiddle to demonstrate the effect I am trying to describe.
http://jsfiddle.net/4AUDr/
#overlay
{
position: relative;
top: -150px;
color: #860101;
}
Meme captions utilize white text with a black outline to make it readable over any hypothetical meme image, however I don't think there is a cross-browser compatible CSS only method of achieving that, and it would potentially look quite horrible with smaller fonts.
What solutions are there to this problem?
While text-shadow is nice, it doesn't actually give the result you want. A shadow is a shadow and what you need to have for most readable text is a "text border". Unfortunately. there is no such thing as text-border in css, but we can make one !
I am surprised by how much unpopular multiple shadows are. This is a case where by multiple shadows you can do miracles :
CSS
p {
color: white;
font-size: 20px;
text-shadow:
0.07em 0 black,
0 0.07em black,
-0.07em 0 black,
0 -0.07em black;
}
This style will simply add a thin shadow (as thin as 7% of your actual font-size) around your text (up, down, left, right).
But are four shadows enough ? Maybe you can get a better result with eight ? It looks like the answer is yes, makes sense to me, but it could also be that we are overkilling things here. Note that in this case I also decreased each shadow's size :
CSS
p.with-eight {
text-shadow:
0.05em 0 black,
0 0.05em black,
-0.05em 0 black,
0 -0.05em black,
-0.05em -0.05em black,
-0.05em 0.05em black,
0.05em -0.05em black,
0.05em 0.05em black;
}
Then in this markup in a colourful background you have a nicely readable text:
HTML
<html>
<body>
<p>This text is readable on any background.</p>
<p class="with-eight">This text is using eight text-shadows.</p>
</body>
</html>
JSFiddle example here
You can experiment with text-shadow property (MDN doc), for instance:
text-shadow: white 0px 0px 10px;
(jsFiddle)
It's supported in IE10. For IE9, you can use proprietary Internet Explorer filters as per this answer.
You can use the css3 property text-shadow
Warning: Browser compatibility problems (IE9 no support)
http://caniuse.com/css-textshadow
a simple example:
.shadow {text-shadow: 4px 4px 2px rgba(150, 150, 150, 1);}
http://jsfiddle.net/H4JtR/
If you use white shadow over black fonts, or vice-versa, your text will be readable no matter what is overlaying.
Another option is to use a background-color with transparency (you may want to apply this to an inline element like a span or a p instead of a div because background-color is going to apply to the whole div area even where there is no text)
background: rgba(33, 33, 33, .9);
http://jsfiddle.net/LSRkE/
Just use a transparency that contrasts with your font color. Then you can lower the alpha-channel value so the image from the background will be visible enough.
Related answer here https://stackoverflow.com/a/5135033/953684
Perhaps this CSS was not around at the time this question was answered, but you can use stroke to add a nice border around text. Like this:
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px;
-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);
I am trying to increase the width of a text.I am not trying to make it bold.I am trying to keep the inside of the text empty.My idea is to fill the text with a color,and ,onhover change the color.
Here is a picture of what i am trying to accomplish:
http://img.ctrlv.in/50eee77779a5b.jpg
The issue is that I cant find a way how to increase text width using css.(i found it via javascript,but then the text assumes properties of an image)(and hence onhover effect is not possible)(I found a way to increase font width using javascript in a w3schools tutorial here
http://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml5_canvas_tut_text2)
I am looking for a html solution(not canvas)
I know there is a shortcut in CSS3/HTML 5 to achieve this effect,but not able to recollect/search sites where i saw the effect.
Any help would be appreciated
Thanks in advance
May not be perfect but not sure of a css selector that can increase letter width, you could try something like:
a:hover {
letter-spacing: 0.2em;
color: #07C;
}
This increases distance between letters, also use css rather than jquery for hover event, its easier!
As far as I can see, you actually want to stroke the text. The width of the font can stay the same so long as the stroke happens outside the boundaries of the text, right?
Well, CSS Tricks has an article which talks about stroking text using webkit-text-stroke and/or text-shadow. An example is given here.
So, you would end up with something like:
/* CSS from tutorial */
.stroke {
/* WebKit (Safari/Chrome) Only */
-webkit-text-stroke: 1px black;
/* If we weren't using text-shadow, we'd set a fallback color
and use this to set color instead
-webkit-text-fill-color: white; */
color: white;
text-shadow:
3px 3px 0 #000,
/* Simulated effect for Firefox and Opera
and nice enhancement for WebKit */
-1px -1px 0 #000,
1px -1px 0 #000,
-1px 1px 0 #000,
1px 1px 0 #000;
}
/* The colour changing bit - added by me */
.stroke:hover {
color:blue;
}
I have a simple
text-shadow: 0.05em 0.05em 0.05em black;
I open in Google Chrome and there is no shadow at all!
I change it to
text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px black;
and it works!
What is the matter?
0.05em is too small value and your shadow falls behind the text. Try to increase it a little - http://jsfiddle.net/zd4qF/
UPDATE
Your code with .05em will actually work in FF, but not Chrome. That's because of rounding logic in the browsers - FF rounds anything smaller than 1px to 1px, Chrome floors it to 0
If you check the link bellow you can see the conversion rates between em and pixels
Since you asked for 0.05em that is way smaller than 1px :)
http://pxtoem.com/
For eg.
1px should be around 0.063em which makes 0.05 em less than 1px thus less than anything you can display.
It's not visible because the value is too low. em is proportional to the font-size. The smaller the font, the smaller everything that's declared depending on the font using em.
Here's an example with different font-sizes. In this example 0.5em can be seen when the font size is 48pt, but not when it'2 12 pt. See http://jsfiddle.net/JwNbj/1/
EM is a relative attribute and depends on your font size defined in the body element or when you defined it also relative, then it depends on the options defined in the user's browser options.
when your font size is 20px, then 1px will be 0,05em. greets.
I was wondering if there was a way of adding a stroke and shadow to text, I can get it working in Chrome and Safari as webkit supports text-stroke and text-shadow. I can get the stroke to display in Firefox but that is using text-shadow and playing with the offset. So does anyone know a way around this issue?
The text-stroke property isn't part of the standard CSS spec, so it's best to avoid it - Chrome would be well within their rights to pull out it at any time.
You're right that you can create text-stroke-like effects using multiple comma-separated text-shadows - in fact you can use the same technique to add an 'actual' shadow as well:
h1 {
font-size: 6em;
font-weight: bold;
text-shadow: 1px 1px 0 #F00,
-1px -1px 0 #F00,
1px -1px 0 #F00,
-1px 1px 0 #F00,
3px 3px 5px #333;
}
<h1 style="margin:0">Hello World</h1>
Be careful though, because text-shadow isn't supported in IE9 and below either. I'd recommend only using it for non-essential styling: make sure the text is still just as readable when the shadow / faux outline isn't there.
Firefox 48 now supports text strokes (with the -webkit prefix), as well as some other webkit-specific properties (like -webkit-text-fill-color). Just be wary that the specification isn't really there, and it will probably change in the future.
Here's an example that now works in Firefox:
.outline {
-webkit-text-stroke: 1px red;
}
span:first-of-type {
display: block;
font-size: 24pt;
font-weight: bold;
}
<span class="outline">This text has a stroke.</span>
<span class="outline">(Even in Firefox)</span>
See the Mozilla website:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/-webkit-text-stroke