Question

Is it possible to use CSS sprites for the list background image? Normally, I render my sprites with CSS like this:

.sprite { background: url(sprite.png) no-repeat top left;}
.sprite-checkmark { background-position: 0 -24px; width: 24px; height: 23px; } 
.sprite-comment { background-position: 0 -48px; width: 14px; height: 14px; }

<div class="sprite sprite-checkmark"></div>

Is it possible to use sprites for the bullets of <li> elements? There are CSS properties called list-style-image, and list-style-position, but I’m not sure how to make it work without the existence of properties like list-style-image-width and list-style-image-height as well.

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can also use

li:before {
    background:url(..) no-repeat -##px -##px;
    width:##px;
    height:##px;
    display:block;
    position:absolute;
    content: " ";
    top:##px;
    left:##px;
}

and thus get an additional element added to the DOM and give that the background image.