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HTML

<div>
    My Short Content<br>
    Second Line
</div>

CSS

div {
    xbackground: yellow;
    overflow: hidden;
    cursor:pointer;
    position: relative;
    z-index: 1;
    border: 1px solid red;
}
div:after {
    content:' ';
    display: block;
    position: absolute;
    xbackground: blue;
    cursor:auto;
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
    z-index: -1;
}