Is it possible to achieve a -like effect without using the tag?

Question

I personally like the

tag because of how it draws a box and puts the

at the top of it, over the border. Like this.

Answer 1

I believe you already know the answer.

You have 2 options, provide your own border (that's a lot of unnecessary work) or position an element with occludes the border (the problem with that is that you can only have a solid background color, but maybe that's fine).

To my knowledge there's not anything you can do to make this workout nicely in every browser out there. I like your style though, it's the right approach but probably not a problem you'll be able to solve in a satisfying manner.

My general opinion on these topics is that you should not try and do things with the web that requires A) excessive effort or B) a markup solution which is not entirely obvious to begin with. The web has limitations and you would do well to ad-her to them rather than trying to work around those limitations.

So I'm forced to ask, what's the problem with

?