Michael Scharnagl 11/2/2015

Using text-shadow instead of font-weight bold to avoid jumping

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This technical article explains a CSS workaround to prevent the 'jumping' effect when using font-weight: bold on hover states. It details using text-shadow to simulate bold text, ensuring element width remains stable. It also covers browser support and provides implementation methods using conditional comments and CSS feature queries (@supports) for older IE versions and modern browsers.

Using text-shadow instead of font-weight bold to avoid jumping

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