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Well, then the text isn't really "in" the triangle, is it? Leading you to rely on further hacks to make sure the text stays in the triangle with a nice padding, correct wrapping, and all the other features you get when text is really inside a container.

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Could always do <div class="triangle"><span>Hello</span></div> where the div has position: relative and the span has position: absolute. Should work everywhere too.

Yes, that's how you'd get a box to appear over the triangle, but it doesn't really solve any of the containment issues.

Example: http://jsfiddle.net/9pMJS/

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