Beginning HTML5 and CSS3 For Dummies

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CSS Text and Shadow Effects

In This Chapter

Creating shadows

Creating inset text

Creating 3D text

Creating a letterpress effect

Adding drop shadows

Rotating text

CSS3 contains many new properties that web developers and designers can use to style, alter, transform, customize, tweak, and enhance text. The result of all these new properties is that the need to use images to achieve desired text effects is greatly reduced.

You get the following benefits out of being able to use styled text rather than images:

Text takes up less storage space and therefore it downloads faster than images.

Text can be read by screen readers and other types of alternative browsers for people with disabilities. ...