Is it possible to create box-shadow effect for inline text?

Question

I want to create this effect:

Is there a way to do this via CSS/JS?

Answer 1

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 changes made I found the addition of a new property: box-decoration-break, that was responsible. 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;
}

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;
  -ms-box-decoration-break: clone;
  -o-box-decoration-break: clone;
  box-decoration-break: clone;
}

  

    Multi-line, padded, highlighted text working in latest Firefox using box-decoration-break: clone