Question

This is my code:

<div><p><span>... highlighted text ...</span></p><p>Chapter info</p></div>

This is what it currently looks like:

http://i48.tinypic.com/2dqvo1i.png

Is there a way to add padding to the sides of the highlighted text? Regular padding on the SPAN doesn’t work, because it only takes into account the the beginning and end of the sentence, not every line separately.

Any ideas? CSS3 code is fine.

Answer 1

After struggling for some time I found a non-quirky solution with a decent fallback for older browsers – adding two CSS3-shadows to the lines of text:

span {
background:#ff0;color:#000;
box-shadow:0.2em 0 0 #ff0,-0.2em 0 0 #ff0;
-moz-box-shadow:0.2em 0 0 #ff0,-0.2em 0 0 #ff0;
-webkit-box-shadow:0.2em 0 0 #ff0,-0.2em 0 0 #ff0;
}