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HTML

<div class="black-box">
    <span class="shadow">This is some text.</span>
</div>

CSS

.black-box { background-color: #000; padding: 20px; }
span.shadow { font: 20px Arial; color: rgba(255,255,255,0.0); text-shadow: 1px 1px 2px rgba(255,255,255,1); }