Padding for two-lined headline

Question

That is a little bit hard to explain, if someone knows a better title for this, please go ahead and change it.

I want to draw a black box behind my headline. I\'m doing

Answer 1

I'm assuming you WANT it to split to "two dark lines" in that fashion? Because if you just want a black background to your titles, that DOES retain the padding, then this simplified version will work:

Some very, very long headline, that is very, very long.

h1 {
  background: #000;
  line-height:33px;
  padding: 8px 25px;
  color: #fff
}

Updated Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/kWgD2/