Before we get there, however, there are a few more things to cover. Remember that absolutely positioned boxes can have backgrounds, margins, borders, and padding; styles can be applied within them, just as with any other element. This can make them very useful for the creation of sidebars, "sticky notes," and other such effects. One example is the ability to not applied to the right and left side of eachline.
Now let's talk about top and bottom padding. In theory, aninline element with a background color and padding could have thebackground extend above and below the element. Figure 7-61 gives us some idea of what that might looklike. The line height isn't changed, of course, but sincepadding does extend the background, it should be visible, right?
Here's where the famous phrase returns: "there may be