Can I give font's a background in a CSS?

Factual Questions
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I’m working on a myspace and I think the text would look really cool if I could give it a background. Just the text. Any ideas?

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I’m working on a myspace and I think the text would look really cool if I could give it a background. Just the text. Any ideas?
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I’m not that familiar with how MySpace does things, but…

<DIV STYLE=“color: green; background: yellow;”>Your text here</DIV>

…should work.