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HTML

<div>
<span id="a"></span>
<span>some text</span>
</div>

CSS

div {
  padding: 10px;
  position: relative;
  z-index: 0;
  height: 20px;
  width: 100px;
  display: inline-block;
  vertical-align: middle;
  text-align: center;
  color: black;

  
  background-color: orange

			
}


div:before {
  content: "";
				position: absolute;
				z-index: -1;
				top: 3px;
				left: 3px;
				right: 3px;
				bottom: 3px;
				border: 3px solid white
}
#a {
  display: inline-block;
			height: 100%;
			vertical-align: middle;
}
span {
  display: inline-block
}