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    <p>I want to create a CSS style that will let my authors write markup like this:</p> <pre><code>On &lt;span class="redacted"&gt;September, 10 2011&lt;/span&gt; the special operations agent, &lt;span class="redacted"&gt;John Smith&lt;/span&gt;, on orders from his commanding officer, &lt;span class="redacted"&gt;Captain Kirk&lt;/span&gt;, terminated the well known terrorist &lt;span class="redacted"&gt;Fred Flinstone&lt;/span&gt;. </code></pre> <p>I currently have a style like this that does the job in a very simple low-tech way:</p> <pre><code>span.redacted { color: black; background-color: black; } </code></pre> <p>One requirement is that I <em>want</em> viewers to be able to highlight the text and see the real content "behind". So just using an image will not work.</p> <p>Instead of my current scheme of just changing the text &amp; background colors, I want the "black-out" to look like it was really applied by a felt-tip pen. With ragged edges and stuff. </p> <p>Any suggestions on how this can be done? I really want to keep my XHMTL as pure as possible and put as much of this into CSS as I can. </p> <p>[EDIT: Examples of redacted text]</p> <p>This Wikipedia article provides several examples of real redacted text. The first example is really rough (too rough I think). The second shows an excessive amount of redaction, but you can see that the 'marker' is not straight/clean.</p> <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanitization_(classified_information)" rel="noreferrer">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanitization_(classified_information)</a></p> <p>I found this example as well:</p> <p><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mJPzxRaCL64/S4X6Zn0MPKI/AAAAAAAAJdw/vX4MYNdUyIk/s400/ishot-2064.jpg" rel="noreferrer">http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mJPzxRaCL64/S4X6Zn0MPKI/AAAAAAAAJdw/vX4MYNdUyIk/s400/ishot-2064.jpg</a></p>
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    1. COHow about using `<del> ... </del>` rather than `<span class="redacted"> ... </span>` to keep your XHTML semantic?
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    2. CO@SinanÜnür, a great suggestion; semantically makes sense. But doesn't help with the formatting.
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    3. COThat's why it is in a comment.
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