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HTML
<p>This is a potentially large paragraph of text, which <span class="wrapped">may get
wrapped onto several lines when displayed in the browser.
I would like to be able to draw a minimal</span> box round the span</p>
CSS
.wrapped {
outline: 2px solid black;
}
p {
margin: 10px;
}