Most WebTV users eventually discover the proprietary font attribute effect and tag . If you have not, here they are:

There are several problems with using those effects, among them:

• Only people using WebTv can see them and you can use CSS to do the same thing so some* computer users can see them.
• You can't control the color of the effect so it only works well with certain color combinations. For most color combinations, they will not work at all.

  emboss shadow relief	emboss shadow relief
  emboss shadow relief	emboss shadow relief

• You can't control the degree of the effect so it only works well with large bold fonts.
• You can't control the direction of the effect.
• When you use CSS instead, you can control all these variables.

text-shadow

text-shadow is an attribute found in CSS but not old fashion HTML. You use it like this:

I have never seen diffusion work so I leave it out. If it worked, it would control the "fuzzyness" of the shadow. x and y offset can be positive or negitive so the shadow can be in any direction. WebTV's shadow effect is only offset 1 or 2 pixels so it is barely visible, even on large fonts. Below you can see the difference when you offset 5 pixels

In the following examples, you can see how much more dramatic the emboss and relief effects are when the shadow is black or white instead of gray

IIn the next examples, you can see that with gray text, the WebTV effect doesn't work at all but by changing the shadow color and increasing the offset to 3px with text-shodow, you can get the effect

Play around with the colors and positions to get other effects like glow and emboss that are computer compatable.

One thing to note is that WebTV is buggy about giving you the correctly colored shadow and you may get a color that is not even close to what you want.

Blackface

Created by DJ Mike from Santa Barbara