text-shadow in Yahoo Mail Android
Not supported text-shadow is not supported in Yahoo Mail 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
Your reader in Yahoo Mail Android sees the email without text-shadow, even if it looks right where you tested it.
The fix for Yahoo Mail Android
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);
}The checker needs a computer screen.
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What Yahoo Mail Android does with text-shadow
@emailens/engine 0.18.22 on the original code
Yahoo Mail Android does not support "text-shadow". Observed 2026-11-08 (Emailens probe sheets 20-22, the Yahoo Mail Android app, our own seed inbox): A green text-shadow did not draw; the text rendered plain.
caniemail record, tested upstream 28 Feb 2019
- Observed 2026-11-08 (Emailens probe sheets 20-22, the Yahoo Mail Android app, our own seed inbox): A green text-shadow did not draw; the text rendered plain.
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fix
Every feature in Yahoo Mail Android · text-shadow in every client
Questions
- How many email clients support text-shadow?
- It works in 12 of 21, not supported in 9.
- What do I use instead of text-shadow in Yahoo Mail Android?
- Use font-weight or border-bottom as alternatives to text-shadow.
- Does text-shadow work in Yahoo Mail iOS?
- text-shadow works in Yahoo Mail iOS. Closest to Yahoo Mail Android: Yahoo Mail iOS, which agrees on 284 of the 297 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