text-shadow

Remove the white text shadow from disabled links in IE8

We are using Ext JS for an application in work, building a custom theme for it. We currently have a dark colour scheme including menus with dark backgrounds. In some of the menus some of the links are disabled at certain points, which all perfectly. However IE8 seems to add a sort of white text shadow, which I am sure is normally fine bu...

jQuery getting text-shadow variabile

Hi, I want to get 4 variables when I click on a span that have the CSS3 text-shadow propriety. So for a css propriety of text-shadow: -4px 11px 8px rgb(30, 43, 2);, my code should be: $("#element").click(function () { var text-shadow = $("#element").css("text-shadow") }); Would it be possible to get it split like: var y = "-4px"; var...

How can I keep CSS3 text-shadow from overshadowing adjacent letters?

Hi guys, I am using a text-shadow effect on text that is rendered using WebKit. It works, but not well. I have white bolded text with the following setting for the text-shadow: text-shadow: rgba(0,0,0,0.9) 0px 0px 10px; You can see the unintended effect here (zoomed for detail). You can see the shadow going over the previous letter,...

How do I combined CSS text-shadow and "background-image: -webkit-gradient"

I am trying to achieve a gradient + text shadow effect in Chrome/Safari using CSS text-shadow and a combination of text-shadow and background-image: -webkit-gradient, see example blw. I can only make one of the effects apply(if I add the shadow the gradient disappears. What am I doing wrong? h1 { font-size: 100px; background-image: -web...

Webkit choking on rendering multiple text-shadow & box-shadow values with webkit-transition

CSS3 -webkit-transition is choking on multiple box-shadow values and text-shadow values. (Chrome & Safari) More specifically, I have two screnarios... (1) I have text has a document heading that has three text-shadows (for appearance of depth). I am also using the -webkit-transition rule to change the color of the text-shadow on hover ...

CSS text-shadow navigation problem

I'm trying to make a pseudo link class with the CSS3 text-shadow for both navigation and normal use of links. The problem is that the state "a:hover" is overruling "a:visited" so when doing a mouseover on the link that previously has been visited, it outputs different that it should. If the a:visited state isn't present in the CSS the ...

Google Chrome text shadow blur bug

Google Chrome has an extremely annoying defect in the blur algorithm it uses for text shadow (possibly other shadows too). As a result, the shadow "eats" into the letters and makes the text look strange and difficult to read. One of the places you can see this clearly is on Twitter - http://dev.twitter.com/pages/auth. The text-shadow is...