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<feDropShadow>

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨January 2020⁩.

The <feDropShadow> SVG filter primitive creates a drop shadow of the input image. It can only be used inside a <filter> element.

Note: The drop shadow color and opacity can be changed by using the flood-color and flood-opacity presentation attributes.

Like other filter primitives, it handles color components in the linearRGB color space by default. You can use color-interpolation-filters to use sRGB instead.

Usage context

Categories Filter primitive element
Permitted content Any number of the following elements, in any order:
<animate>, <discard>, <script>, <set>

Attributes

dx

This attribute defines the x offset of the drop shadow. Value type: <number>; Default value: 2; Animatable: yes

dy

This attribute defines the y offset of the drop shadow. Value type: <number>; Default value: 2; Animatable: yes

stdDeviation

This attribute defines the standard deviation for the blur operation in the drop shadow. Value type: <number-optional-number>; Default value: 2; Animatable: yes

DOM Interface

This element implements the SVGFEDropShadowElement interface.

Example

<svg viewBox="0 0 30 10" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
  <defs>
    <filter id="shadow">
      <feDropShadow dx="0.2" dy="0.4" stdDeviation="0.2" />
    </filter>
    <filter id="shadow2">
      <feDropShadow dx="0" dy="0" stdDeviation="0.5" flood-color="cyan" />
    </filter>
    <filter id="shadow3">
      <feDropShadow
        dx="-0.8"
        dy="-0.8"
        stdDeviation="0"
        flood-color="pink"
        flood-opacity="0.5" />
    </filter>
  </defs>

  <circle cx="5" cy="50%" r="4" fill="pink" filter="url(#shadow)" />
  <circle cx="15" cy="50%" r="4" fill="pink" filter="url(#shadow2)" />
  <circle cx="25" cy="50%" r="4" fill="pink" filter="url(#shadow3)" />
</svg>

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Opera Safari Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet WebView Android WebView on iOS
feDropShadow 13 79 30 15 6 18 30 14 6 1.0 4.4 6
dx 13 79 30 15 6 18 30 14 6 1.0 4.4 6
dy 13 79 30 15 6 18 30 14 6 1.0 4.4 6
in 13 79 30 15 6 18 30 14 6 1.0 4.4 6
stdDeviation 13 79 30 15 6 18 30 14 6 1.0 4.4 6

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Reference/Element/feDropShadow