CSS: highlighted text effect

Question

I\'m trying to produce a highlighted text effect with a bit of padding, but the padding is only applied to the beginning and end, not new lines.

#highlight {         


        

Answer 1

In case anyone is still looking for an answer:

p {
    box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px 5px yellow;
    display: inline;
    line-height: 2;
    margin: -5px -5px;
    background-color: yellow;
    border-radius: 1px;
}

See jsfiddle here.