Re: width of content+padding versus border+margin

On 15 Dec 2000, Matthew Brealey wrote:
>> 
>> <style>
>>   span {
>>     display:inline;
>>      background: #066; padding: 3pt;
>>   }
>> </style>
>> 
>> <H2><span>content</span><H2>
> 
> That won't work. Only the text is coloured of inline text - not its padding. 

For the record, that's not true, per CSS2, 14.2, sentence 2.

Steve's solution would work fine.

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