Animating elements of text-shadow with jQuery

Question

I was wondering if there was any way to, using jQuery, animate properties of text-shadow like size or colour.

It\'s annoying that there aren\'t individual properties

Answer 1

Might be a little late for this answer, but here it is anyway...

I solved it by implementing a "virtual" css-property to be animated like this

$.fx.step.textShadowBlur = function(fx) {
  $(fx.elem).css({textShadow: '0 0 ' + Math.floor(fx.now) + 'px black'});
};

$(el).css({textShadowBlur:20})
    .animate({textShadowBlur:1}, {duration: 1000});

This is described in more detail here: http://usefulthink.com/2010-12/animating-text-shadow-using-jquery

Some other approaches can be found here: http://forum.jquery.com/topic/let-s-animate-text-shadow