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HTML

<div class="wrap">
        <span>inline</span>
        <span>inline</span>
        <span>inline</span>
    </div>

CSS

.wrap { letter-spacing: -.25em;}
.wrap span {
    display:inline;/*all browsers & webkit will comply now*/
    word-spacing:0;/*reset for FF,Opera,IE8 (Webkit still ignores it)*/
    letter-spacing: 0;
    font:bold 1em/1.5 arial;
    background:palegreen;
 
}