What's going on here? Why so much space around the text? Well, that's because the 'border image area' is very large to accomodate the large image, and browsers don't support the border-image-outset property which would allow you to move the border image outside the box.

Thanks to Frame Notes for the image.

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With a single image and a single div, we have a box that can expand in all directions, and which has a fancy border and a background image.

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