Padding Middle Lines Of A Span

This is a follow-up to the Q&A found here. Is there a way to control the padding within middle lines of the span? It's kind of hard to explain, but maybe my fiddle will help de

Solution 1:

You can't arbitrarily add border-radius or padding to word-wraps because the HTML element doesn't actually end there. If you want what you have in the diagram you will need to use three elements.