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unordered list background image

something very simple i am trying to achieve but it looks harder than i thought.....

in an unordered list (with a link inside it) i am trying to aligned the background image (which is an arrow) to the right with a little bit of left padding so it will not be so close to the link.
the link can be at any length so i am not able to fix the width of the <li> nor the <a>.
the background image or goes way to the right or when using left position and paddings the arrow background image get cut due to the font size.

attached a screenshot of what i am trying to archive. again the link text can be at any length.

Thanks!!!

bill30

a few solutions:

after the text type  
  is the http command for a space and it could give you the space you want, you can use it several times   
ex: <ul>
<li><a href="#">THIS IS THE LINK TEXT</a>  </li>
</ul>

or photoshop the image and add extra white pixels to the left of it until you have the spacing you need

hankknight

Here is an image to use:
link.png

hankknight

And here is the code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Demo</title>
<style type="text/css">
html,body {
background:#fff;
}

ul {
list-style: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}

li {
background: transparent url(http://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2011/04_w15/440692/link.png) no-repeat scroll 100% 100%;
height: 34px;
line-height: 34px;
padding: 2px 1px 0 1px;
margin: 0;
width: 200px;
}

li a, li a:link, li a:visited {
font-family: "arial narrow", "helvetica narrow", arial, helvetica, "san serif";
font-size: 18px;
font-weight: 600;
color: #2C3F5F;
height: 34px;
line-height: 34px;
text-decoration: none;
display: block;
}

li a:hover {
color: red;
}

</style>
</head>
<body>

<h1>Hello World</h1>

<div>
 <ul>
  <li><a href="#">Link 1</a></li>
  <li><a href="#">Link 2</a></li>
  <li><a href="#">Link 3</a></li>
  <li><a href="#">Another Link Example</a></li>
 </ul>
</div>

</body>
</html>

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Refael

ASKER

hankknight, thanks for the example
the problem is you set the width to 200px. Some links text are shorter and some are longer.

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Refael

ASKER

so after spending hours, here is the solution. compatible in IE 7 and 8 as well:

ul {
	margin:0;
	padding:0;
	margin-top:10px;
	list-style:none;
}
li {
	padding:0;
	height:29px;
	line-height:28px;
	font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;		
}
li span {
	display:inline-block;
	width:21px;
	float:left;
	background: transparent url(../layout/more_arrow.png) no-repeat scroll 100% 100%;
	height:25px;
	line-height:32px;
	padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px;
}
li a {
	float:left;
	font-size:12px;
        font-weight: 600;
        color: #2C3F5F;
	height: 20px;
        line-height: 28px;
	text-decoration:none;
        border-bottom:2px #900 solid;
	letter-spacing:1px;
        text-transform:uppercase;
}



<li><a href="#">THE LINK TEXT</a><span></span></li>

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