-webkit-text-stroke
Baseline Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since April 2017.
The -webkit-text-stroke CSS property specifies the width and color of strokes for text characters. This is a shorthand property for the longhand properties -webkit-text-stroke-width and -webkit-text-stroke-color.
Constituent properties
This property is a shorthand for the following CSS properties:
Syntax
css
/* Width and color values */ -webkit-text-stroke: 4px navy; /* Global values */ -webkit-text-stroke: inherit; -webkit-text-stroke: initial; -webkit-text-stroke: revert; -webkit-text-stroke: revert-layer; -webkit-text-stroke: unset; Values
Formal definition
| Initial value | as each of the properties of the shorthand:
|
|---|---|
| Applies to | all elements |
| Inherited | yes |
| Computed value | as each of the properties of the shorthand:
|
| Animation type | as each of the properties of the shorthand:
|
Formal syntax
-webkit-text-stroke =
<line-width> ||
<color>
<line-width> =
<length [0,∞]> |
thin |
medium |
thick
Examples
Adding a red text stroke
HTML
html
<p id="example">The stroke of this text is red.</p> CSS
css
#example { font-size: 3em; margin: 0; -webkit-text-stroke: 2px red; } Result
Specifications
| Specification |
|---|
| Compatibility # the-webkit-text-stroke |