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Andy
Andy

Reputation: 3171

Creating highlight effect on text with padding using CSS

I am trying to create highlighted text effect with line break(s).

Example:

highlighted text effect

I cannot figure out how to add padding to the text. Here is the CSS for the span element that contains the text:

background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #1B1615;
display: inline;
font-size: 15px;
line-height: 24px;
padding-left: 5px;

When adding padding it only adds padding to beginning of the text and the end, as seen here:

Added Padding

CSS:

background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #1B1615;
display: inline;
font-size: 15px;
line-height: 3em;
padding: 10px;

Does anybody have any idea on how to make this happen?

Upvotes: 18

Views: 35045

Answers (7)

Obewan
Obewan

Reputation: 140

If this is a "title" or something similar and it wraps because the container is fluid, why not set the background color on the container, then when/if your text/title wraps, all of the space between the lines of text, as well as the text line length, will appear to be the same.

<html>
<head><title>...blah...blah</title>
<style type="text/css" title="text/css">
#masthead{
    background-color:black;
    color: white;
}
#masthead h1{
    text-transform:uppercase;
}
#container{
    background-color:red;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
  <div id="masthead">
    <h1>some sort of title goes here</h1>
  </div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Additionally, you can probably just enhance the text in the h1 tag with margin/padding styles to get the appearance you are after.

Upvotes: 0

Bit32
Bit32

Reputation: 346

Here's a method of achieving a multi-line, padded, highlight behavior for text using just CSS.

This is based on the box-shadow method found elsewhere, however as of Firefox 32 the traditional box-shadow solution no longer renders correctly.

Reviewing the changelog for FF32 I found there's a new property: box-decoration-break that causes the breakage.

This property defaults to 'split' but needs to be specified as 'clone' to achieve the desired multiline padding effect.

For more info see: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/box-decoration-break

.box {
  width: 50rem;
  margin: 1rem auto;
  font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif;
}

h1 {
  color: white;
  font-size: 2.5rem;
  line-height: 4rem; /* reduce size to remove gap between text */
  margin: 0px;
}

h1 span {
  background-color: #A8332E;
  padding: 0.5rem 0;
  -webkit-box-shadow: 1rem 0px 0px #A8332E, -1rem 0px 0px #A8332E;
  box-shadow: 1rem 0px 0px #A8332E, -1rem 0px 0px #A8332E;
  -webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;
  -moz-box-decoration-break:clone; 
  box-decoration-break: clone;
}
<div class="box">
  <h1>
    <span>Multi-line, padded, highlighted text that display properly in Firefox using box-decoration-break: clone</span>
  </h1>
</div>

Upvotes: 12

Wolfgang Criollo
Wolfgang Criollo

Reputation: 158

you can use box-decoration-break

-moz-box-decoration-break:clone; 
-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;
box-decoration-break:clone;

working sample codepen

Upvotes: 5

Adrian Macneil
Adrian Macneil

Reputation: 13263

Building on Brandon's solution, I figured out you can actually avoid the padding altogether and do it purely using box-shadow's spread option, and the padding on wrapped inline elements behaves as you expect.

.highlight {
    background: black;
    color: white;
    box-shadow: 0 0 0 5px black;
}

Upvotes: 5

Brandon Webster
Brandon Webster

Reputation: 356

I had this same question and I did some hunting and found a pure CSS solution this that only requires a little bit of CSS: CSS create padding before line-break

The basic solution is using padding on top and bottom and a solid box shadow to pad the left and right sides of the text, like this:

.highlight {
    color:#fff;
    background:#000;
    box-shadow:5px 0 0 #000, -5px 0 0 #000;
    padding: 5px 0;
}

Upvotes: 24

Cameron
Cameron

Reputation: 29

Just add:

&nbsp;

If space in the text area is all you are looking for.

Upvotes: 2

Dmitry Negoda
Dmitry Negoda

Reputation: 3189

Add padding for the surrounding block-level element (e.g. div or td) and remove the padding from your span.

Upvotes: -2

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