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HTML

<div id='outer'>
  <p>dfg</p>
  <p>sdf</p>
  <p></p>
</div>

CSS

#outer {
    position: absolute;
    left: 80px;
    top: 60px;
    width: auto;
    padding-top: 5px;
    padding-bottom: 5px;
    background: green;
}

// p elements

p {
    margin-left: 18px;
    display: inline;
}