On Jan 20, 2010, at 9:49 AM, fantasai wrote: > On 01/20/2010 08:57 AM, Brad Kemper wrote: >> >> It sounds to me like you are describing a background pattern. >> Create an image 1px wide, and as tall as two lines of text. Make the >> top half of the image one color and the bottom half a different color, >> and repeat it across the whole multi-line block. Use 'background-size' >> to keep it the height of 2 lines of text (3em in your example), maybe >> starting with a larger-than-needed image so that it scales well. > > That's a really hackish way of doing it, Funny, I was thinking that adding a span element and a new pseudo-element in order to get a repeating stripe pattern was hackish. > and it'll break if there's any > content on any lines that's taller than the default line height. True. But in many cases where striping is useful (code listings, for instance), that would be rare, or controllable.
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