Horizontally Stretched Absolute SPAN
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title></title> <style type="text/css"> #abs-h { width: auto; left: 0; right: 0; position: absolute; background: pink; } </style> </head> <body> <span id="abs-h">Horizontally Stretched Absolute</span> </body> </html>