Animating elements of text-shadow with jQuery

Question

I was wondering if there was any way to, using jQuery, animate properties of text-shadow like size or colour.

It's annoying that there aren't individual properties like text-shadow-color instead of the statement only being available in combined form.

Answer 1

Might be a little late for this answer, but here it is anyway...

I solved it by implementing a "virtual" css-property to be animated like this

$.fx.step.textShadowBlur = function(fx) {
  $(fx.elem).css({textShadow: '0 0 ' + Math.floor(fx.now) + 'px black'});
};

$(el).css({textShadowBlur:20})
    .animate({textShadowBlur:1}, {duration: 1000});

This is described in more detail here: http://usefulthink.com/2010-12/animating-text-shadow-using-jquery

Some other approaches can be found here: http://forum.jquery.com/topic/let-s-animate-text-shadow

Answer 2

As an alternative to using jQuery, you can use the powerful animation capabilities of the UIZE JavaScript Framework. See different elements of multiple text shadows being animated at the same time in the following example...

http://www.uize.com/examples/hover-fader-text-shadow-animation.html