Text border using css (border around text)
Solution 1:
Use multiple text shadows:
text-shadow: 2px 0 0 #fff, -2px 0 0 #fff, 0 2px 0 #fff, 0 -2px 0 #fff, 1px 1px #fff, -1px -1px 0 #fff, 1px -1px 0 #fff, -1px 1px 0 #fff;
body {
font-family: sans-serif;
background: #222;
color: darkred;
}
h1 {
text-shadow: 2px 0 0 #fff, -2px 0 0 #fff, 0 2px 0 #fff, 0 -2px 0 #fff, 1px 1px #fff, -1px -1px 0 #fff, 1px -1px 0 #fff, -1px 1px 0 #fff;
}<h1>test</h1>Alternatively, you could use text stroke, which only works in webkit:
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 2px;
-webkit-text-stroke-color: #fff;
body {
font-family: sans-serif;
background: #222;
color: darkred;
}
h1 {
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 2px;
-webkit-text-stroke-color: #fff;
}<h1>test</h1>Also read more as CSS-Tricks.
Solution 2:
Sure. You could use CSS3 text-shadow :
text-shadow: 0 0 2px #fff;
However it wont show in all browsers right away. Using a script library like Modernizr will help getting it right in most browsers though.