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:

• -webkit-text-stroke-color
• -webkit-text-stroke-width

Syntax

/* 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

<length>

The width of the stroke.

<color>

The color of the stroke.

Formal definition

Formal syntax

-webkit-text-stroke = 
  <line-width>  ||
  <color>       

<line-width> = 
  <length [0,∞]>  |
  thin            |
  medium          |
  thick           

Examples

Adding a red text stroke

HTML

<p id="example">The stroke of this text is red.</p>

CSS

#example {
  font-size: 3em;
  margin: 0;
  -webkit-text-stroke: 2px red;
}

Result

Specifications

Browser compatibility

See also

• Introducing Text-Stroke on webkit.org (2006)
• CSS-Tricks article explaining this feature
• -webkit-text-stroke-width
• -webkit-text-stroke-color
• -webkit-text-fill-color