text-shadow: -1px 0 black, 0 1px black, 1px 0 black, 0 -1px black;
Sure. You could use CSS3 text-shadow
:
text-shadow: 0 0 2px #fff;
However it wont show in all browsers right away. Using a script library like Modernizr will help getting it right in most browsers though.
The following will cover all browsers worth covering:
text-shadow: 0 0 2px #fff; /* Firefox 3.5+, Opera 9+, Safari 1+, Chrome, IE10 */
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Glow(Color=#ffffff,Strength=1); /* IE<10 */
I don't like that much solutions based on multiplying text-shadows, it's not really flexible, it may work for a 2 pixels stroke where directions to add are 8, but with just 3 pixels stroke directions became 16, and so on... Not really confortable to manage.
The right tool exists, it's SVG <text>
The browsers' support problem worth nothing in this case, 'cause the usage of text-shadow has its own support problem too,
filter: progid:DXImageTransform
can be used or IE < 10 but often doesn't work as expected.
To me the best solution remains SVG with a fallback in not-stroked text for older browser:
This kind of approuch works on pratically all versions of Chrome and Firefox, Safari since version 3.04, Opera 8, IE 9
Compared to text-shadow
whose supports are:
Chrome 4.0,
FF 3.5,
IE 10,
Safari 4.0,
Opera 9, it results even more compatible.
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font-weight: bold;_x000D_
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svg {_x000D_
display: block;_x000D_
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text {_x000D_
fill: black;_x000D_
stroke: red;_x000D_
stroke-width: 3;_x000D_
}
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<p class="stroke">_x000D_
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="700" height="72" viewBox="0 0 700 72">_x000D_
<text x="0" y="70">Stroked text</text>_x000D_
</svg>_x000D_
</p>
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Source: Stackoverflow.com