text-shadow in Outlook Android
Works text-shadow works in Outlook Android.
Works in 12 of 21 · not supported in 9
Which clients
- Works
- Outlook 365, Outlook Android, Apple Mail, Apple Mail iOS, Yahoo Mail iOS, Samsung Mail, Thunderbird, HEY Mail, Proton Mail, AOL Mail, Fastmail, Superhuman
- Not supported
- Gmail, Gmail Android, Gmail iOS, Outlook (New), Outlook Classic, Outlook iOS, Outlook for Mac, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Mail Android
The fix for the clients that need it
Needed in 9 of 21: Gmail, Gmail Android, Gmail iOS and 6 more.
Use font-weight or border-bottom as alternatives to text-shadow
.glow {
/* text-shadow is not supported in Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo.
Use font-weight or letter-spacing for emphasis instead. */
font-weight: bold;
letter-spacing: 0.5px;
}Show the original
.glow {
text-shadow: 0 0 10px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5);
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What Outlook Android does with text-shadow
caniemail record, tested upstream 28 Feb 2019
- Observed 2026-11-08 (Emailens probe sheets 20-22, the Outlook Android app, our own seed inbox): A green text-shadow drew behind the text.
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Every feature in Outlook Android · text-shadow in every client
Questions
- How many email clients support text-shadow?
- It works in 12 of 21, not supported in 9.
- Does text-shadow work in Outlook iOS?
- text-shadow is not supported in Outlook iOS. Closest to Outlook Android: Outlook iOS, which agrees on 270 of the 296 features both are tested on.
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Real captures 14 Oct 2026 on 11 installs · caniemail (MIT) via @emailens/engine 0.18.22 · tested upstream 28 Feb 2019 · data last changed 10 Nov 2026 · Outlook (New) cells are the engine's mapping