# Text and shade **URL:** \ **Category:** flash\ **Created:** [September 15, 2002, 11:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-and-shade/5551 "2002-09-15T11:14:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Didiusthegreat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@Didiusthegreat](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Didiusthegreat)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2002, 11:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-and-shade/5551/1 "2002-09-15T11:14:47Z")
Hi, I’ve been surfing the net and suddenly I saw the site https://players.brightcove.net/800000612001/a7975ab0-d4c3-4514-a6c3-d7bfff0667c5_default/index.html?videoId=5630313323001 I saw the buttons and then my question came! How do I let the text like that buttontext there have a shade? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2002, 11:47am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-and-shade/5551/2 "2002-09-15T11:47:20Z")
Hey Didiusthegreat, What they did was, they copied the text and pasted the text in a layer below the original text. They then moved the pasted text a few pixels to the right and up. Finally, they changed the color of the pasted text to a shadowy, gray color. See the attached FLA for an example =) Cheers! Kirupa :rambo: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2002, 1:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-and-shade/5551/3 "2002-10-20T13:31:00Z")
Now, that was a rather stupid question, but that’s why Kirupa’s here, to answer all the stupid questions 🙂 (just joking) P.S. Dieter, will you please bring my chess-game back friday, I was thinking: “he never reads his mail, so why not tell him on kirupa!” Oh yeah, I’m out of ideas for new flash-effects, if you have any…