<feDropShadow>

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

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.

Example

html
<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" style="fill:pink; filter:url(#shadow);" />

  <circle cx="15" cy="50%" r="4" style="fill:pink; filter:url(#shadow2);" />

  <circle cx="25" cy="50%" r="4" style="fill:pink; filter:url(#shadow3);" />
</svg>

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

Usage context

CategoriesFilter primitive element
Permitted contentAny number of the following elements, in any order:
<animate>, <script>, <set>

Specifications

Specification
Filter Effects Module Level 1
# feDropShadowElement

Browser compatibility

BCD tables only load in the browser

See also