Fixed width menu items - solved

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Tryning to use an image as a background to the menu <li> tag but  the image gets clipped to the lingth of the letters.
Using CSS  to set background-image, width and hight of the <li> tag doesnt work.
Using CSS to set background-image, width and hight of the <li><a> tag dosnt work.

I dont want a hover effect but when viewing a page the <li> backgound it shall change (changing the image)

solution

Code: [Select]

<div id="menu">
    <?php show_menu2(
    0,
        SM2_ROOT,
        SM2_CURR+1,
        SM2_TRIM,
        &#39;[li][ac]<div class="menumover">[menu_title]</div></a>&#39;,
        &#39;</li>&#39;,
        &#39;[ul]&#39;,
        &#39;</ul>&#39;,
        false,
        false
    ); ?>
</div>


Code: [Select]

/*.........MENY..........*/
#menu
{
    position: absolute;
    top: 124px;
    left: 44px;
    width: 900px;
    height: 24px;
    text-align: left;
}
#menu UL
{
    margin: 0px;
    padding: 0px;
    list-style-type: none;
}
#menu UL LI
{
    display: inline;
}
#menu UL LI A
{
    display: inline-block;
    width: 172px;
    height: 24px;
    background-image: url(meny_inaktiv.gif);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    color: #FFFFFF;
    font-size: 10px;
    font-weight: bold;
}
#menu UL LI A.menu-current
{
    background-image: url(meny_aktiv.gif);
}
.menumover
{
    position: relative;
    top: 7px;
    left: 7px;
}


Just so you know..it doesnt validate...darn..