Question

I have a vertical menu having an item “Click here to get the scientific name”.

on hover it is showing like

I need to get the overflow part after the black background image to be in the next line(i cannot increase the image width at all.). How can I write the style for that.

css:

on hover

{    
display: block;
background: url('/../.png') no-repeat 0px 2px #2F2F31;
text-decoration: none;
color:..;
}

This is coming under

<td> 
<div id="first">
    <ul id="second">
       <li><a href="">Click here to get the scientific name</a>

And css:

#first {
    display: block;
    width: 180px;
    min-height: 50px;
    float: left;
}


ul#second {
    display: block;
    clear: both;
    margin: 50px 0px 12px 0px;
    border-bottom: 1px solid 
    #C8C8C8;
}


ul#second li {
    border-top: 1px solid 
    #C8C8C8;
    padding: 0px;
    display: block;
}


ul#second li a {
    color: 
    #004C8E;
    margin: 4px 0px 4px 0px;
    padding: 4px 0px 4px 12px;
    display: block;
    text-decoration: none;
    font-size: 12px;
    background: url('/../.png') no-repeat 0px 2px;
}                  


td {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  border: 0;
  outline: 0;
  font-size: 100%;
  vertical-align: baseline;
  background: 
  transparent;
}

Answer 1

On hover, you should explicitly set the width of the element to equal the width of the image.