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Is there anyway to use this text gradient method and also have a drop shadow on the text. http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/gradient-text/

When I set my dropshadow like 

text-shadow: 1px 1px 2px #000;

Then it messes up my text gradient because the background is set to transparent. Does anyone know of a solution to this for webkit browsers.

Chapsterj
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  • Does this answer your question? [How do I combined CSS text-shadow and "background-image: -webkit-gradient"](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3802218/how-do-i-combined-css-text-shadow-and-background-image-webkit-gradient) – Tamás Bolvári Jan 20 '21 at 07:54

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You can combine with filter: drop-shadow CSS property that will make the trick.

h1 {
  font-size: 72px;
  background: -webkit-linear-gradient(#eee, #333);
  -webkit-background-clip: text;
  -webkit-text-fill-color: transparent;
  filter: drop-shadow(2px 2px #333);
}
<h1>Example</h1>
Francisco Romero
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updated

Found a solution for you, only problem is it requires the html to have a attribute.

http://jsfiddle.net/2GgqR/2/

h1 {
  font-size: 72px;
  background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(#eee, #333);
  -webkit-background-clip: text;
  -webkit-text-fill-color: transparent;
  position:relative;  
}

h1:after {
  background: none;
  content: attr(data-text);
  left: 0;
  top: 0;
  z-index: -1;
  position: absolute;
  text-shadow: 1px 1px 2px #000;
}

original is here :) http://viget.com/inspire/background-clip-text-shadow-gradients

updated link from comments http://jsfiddle.net/2GgqR/5/

here I added the background color of the background to the :after

h1:after {
  background: #f3f3ee;
}

.background{
    background-color: #f3f3ee;
    position: relative;
    z-index: 1;
}
Karl Doyle
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    Hi Karl this works great until you try to have a wrapper div around it which I need to have a background image behind it all. see my updated fiddle with just a background color wrapper around it. http://jsfiddle.net/2GgqR/3/ – Chapsterj Feb 25 '13 at 23:51
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I have figured out a solution which does not use filter and z-index. This can be used if you have a background or a foreground:

h1 {
    position: relative;
}

h1::after {
    background-image: linear-gradient(#f00, #fcc);
    -webkit-background-clip: text;
    background-clip: text;
    -webkit-text-fill-color: transparent;
    content: attr(data-content);
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
}

h1::before {
    text-shadow: #000 1px 1px 2px;
    content: attr(data-content);
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
}

Effect: https://jsfiddle.net/m9dtf6po/2/

Of course, since I am using ::before and ::after, an attribute is needed, but the attribute can be shared. The problem of using z-index is that:

This was the problem I faced when I did have a background and a foreground sandwiching my text, as in the following image: enter image description here

The text S+ needs to be on top of a bar, but on top of all things there can be a box. I actually found this post and tried Karl's solution but the shadow disappeared behind the bar.

Shieru Asakoto
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Since some browsers didnt get the "clipping" rule I needed to find a way to create a gradient using just text shadow. So I managed to do it repeating the word and using color transparent . Check the result here

HTML

<h2 class="points">
  <p><span class="text">REPEAT THIS WORD</span><span class="gradient">REPEAT THIS WORD</span><span class="gradient">REPEAT THIS WORD</span></p>
</h2>

CSS

html, body {
  background: black;
  font-size: 16px;
  height: 100%;
  width: 100%;
}

.points {
  font-size: 2.8em;
  padding: 0 0.2em 0 1em;
  display: flex;
  justify-content: center;
  align-content: center;
  width: 100%;
}
.points p {
  position: relative;
}
.points span {
  width: 100%;
}
.points span.text {
  color: white;
  position: relative;
  text-shadow: -2px 2px 0 #882b06, 2px 2px 0 #882b06, 2px -2px 0 #882b06, -2px -2px 0 #882b06;
}
.points span.gradient {
  color: transparent;
  position: absolute;
}
.points span:nth-child(2), .points span:last-child {
  color: transparent;
  left: 0;
  overflow: hidden;
  right: 0;
  width: 100%;
  white-space: nowrap;
}
.points span:nth-child(2) {
  bottom: 0;
  text-shadow: 0 -0.33em 2px #fbe8a1;
  height: 0.8em;
}
.points span:last-child {
  bottom: 0.2em;
  text-shadow: 0 -0.55em 3px #ecb752;
  height: 0.4em;
}

https://codepen.io/kengreg/pen/JjrwLyL

Kengreg
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