Inner text shadow with CSS

Question

I am currently playing around with CSS3 and trying to achieve a text effect like this (the black blurry inner shadow):

But I cannot find a way to create text shadows inside the text. I wonder whether it is still possible because the box-shadow element is able to render shadow inside like this:

box-shadow: inset 0px -5px 10px 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Here's a little trick I discovered using the :before and :after pseudo-elements:

.depth {
    color: black;
    position: relative;
}
.depth:before, .depth:after {
    content: attr(title);
    color: rgba(255,255,255,.1);
    position: absolute;
}
.depth:before { top: 1px; left: 1px }
.depth:after  { top: 2px; left: 2px }

The title attribute needs to be the same as the content. Demo: http://dabblet.com/gist/1609945