Re: border on broken line boxes (was Re: 14.2.1 'background-position' - block level only?)

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>> Several  |emphasized words,
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>> enough to break across more
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>> than two lines,| appear here.
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>>             fig. 1
> Only and _absolutely_ only if the line-height property has been set to a
> value greater than 1.0 of current font height. The padding property
> could then be used to "close" the "gap" between lines again of course.
True.

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>> Several  |emphasized words,
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>> enough to break across more
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>> than two lines,| appear here.
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>>             fig. 2
> That's the way it should be for { line-height: normal; padding: 0 }
> (i.e. for their initial values) where I would like "normal" to be equal
> to exactly 1em.
Good point. I had forgotten about line-height, and stand corrected.

To be exact, Fig 2 is the way it should be for { line-height: 1.0; padding:
0; }, since the value of normal is UA dependant.

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