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.
dxThis attribute defines the x offset of the drop shadow. Value type: <number>; Default value: 2; Animatable: yes
dyThis attribute defines the y offset of the drop shadow. Value type: <number>; Default value: 2; Animatable: yes
stdDeviationThis attribute defines the standard deviation for the blur operation in the drop shadow. Value type: <number-optional-number>; Default value: 2; Animatable: yes
This element implements the SVGFEDropShadowElement interface.
<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>
| Specification |
|---|
| Filter Effects Module Level 1> # feDropShadowElement> |
| 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 |
height, in, result, x, y, and width.flood-color, and flood-opacity.
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Reference/Element/feDropShadow