title: Set background-color on only the text not the empty space in a td
body: <p>I'm trying to get the background color to wrap around the text alone, not the empty spaces.</p>
  
  <p>I now have:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;TD&gt; Text &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;
  Longer text that stretches out above text-background color...
  &lt;/TD&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and css:</p>
  
  <pre><code>td {background-color: black; color: white}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The rest of the space I would like just to be transparant, but I can't find any variable for this...</p>