CSS menu with custom image or icon on every button - html

Question

I have created Html menu as follow
Football
Basketball
Baseball
then my css file is as follow:
#main-nav a
{
display: block;
float: left;
margin: 125px 0px 0px 0px;
color: #666666;
border: 1px #C0C0C0 solid;
background-color: #EEEEEE;
font-family: Arial;
font-size: 13px;
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
text-decoration: none;
width: 106px;
height: 78px;
vertical-align: middle;
line-height: 78px;
text-align: center;
}
#main-nav a:hover, #main-nav .active
{
color: #666666;
background-color: #C0C0C0;
border: 1px #C0C0C0 solid;
}
I am trying to customize it a bit more by adding 30*30 icon of football etc in each corresponding button
i have tried to make every image as a Div and use position to make it in the corresponding button but this solution is fragile and not the best option.
can idea of better solution?

Answer 1

You can try this code:
<div id='main-nav'> Football<div class='icon'></div>
Basketball<div class='icon'></div>
Baseball<div class='icon'></div>
</div>
whit this css:
#main-nav a {
display: block;
float: left;
margin: 125px 0px 0px 0px;
color: #666666;
border: 1px #C0C0C0 solid;
background-color: #EEEEEE;
font-family: Arial;
font-size: 13px;
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
text-decoration: none;
width: 106px;
height: 78px;
vertical-align: middle;
line-height: 78px;
text-align: center;
position : relative;
}
#main-nav a .icon {
height: 30px;
width : 30px;
background : red;//change this for the img.
position : absolute;
top : 0;
left : 35px;
}
#main-nav a:hover, #main-nav .active {
color: #666666;
background-color: #C0C0C0;
border: 1px #C0C0C0 solid;
}
Changing the red background for a background: url(/path/to/image)
Please, take a look at this jsfiddle.
Note: include a <div> intro a <a> it's valid in html5 but not in html 4.01. More info here.

Answer 2

Try this
#main-nav a
{
display: block;
float: left;
margin: 125px 0px 0px 0px;
color: #666666;
border: 1px #C0C0C0 solid;
font-family: Arial;
font-size: 13px;
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
text-decoration: none;
width: 115px;
height: 78px;
vertical-align: middle;
line-height: 78px;
text-align: center;
background:url(http://img6a.flixcart.com/image/ball/4/g/g/vector-x-football-england-100x100-imade784dbrjbdzp.jpeg) no-repeat 50% 99% #EEEEEE;
background-size:25px
}
#main-nav a:nth-child(2){
background:url(http://www.iconshock.com/img_jpg/BRILLIANT/sports/jpg/128/american_football_icon.jpg) no-repeat 50% 99% #EEEEEE;
background-size:25px
}
#main-nav a:nth-child(3){
background:url(http://www.iconshock.com/img_jpg/BRILLIANT/sports/jpg/128/archery_icon.jpg) no-repeat 50% 99% #EEEEEE;
background-size:25px
}
DEMO
DEMO UPDATED

Answer 3

try this. your html
<div id="main-nav">
Football
Cricket
Tennis
</div>
css
#main-nav a
{
display: block;
float: left;
margin: 125px 0px 0px 0px;
color: #666666;
border: 1px #C0C0C0 solid;
background-color: #EEEEEE;
font-family: Arial;
font-size: 13px;
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
text-decoration: none;
width: 106px;
height: 78px;
vertical-align: middle;
line-height: 78px;
padding-left:50px;
}
#main-nav a.football{
background:url("http://icons.iconarchive.com/icons/ampeross/qetto/32/icon-developer-icon.png") no-repeat 10px;
}
#main-nav a.cricket{
background:url("http://icons.iconarchive.com/icons/deleket/3d-cartoon/32/Axialis-Icon-Workshop-icon.png") no-repeat 10px;
}
#main-nav a.tennis{
background:url("http://icons.iconarchive.com/icons/deleket/mac-folders/32/Blue-Apple-icon.png") no-repeat 10px;
}
#main-nav a:hover, #main-nav .active
{
color: #666666;
background-color: #C0C0C0;
border: 1px #C0C0C0 solid;
}
my fiddle http://jsfiddle.net/ponrajpaul/4VMa4/
or if you want to use same icon for all links, remove all class names from a tags and use like this
<div id="main-nav">
Football
Cricket
Tennis
<div>
#main-nav a{
background:url("http://icons.iconarchive.com/icons/deleket/3d-cartoon/32/Axialis-Icon-Workshop-icon.png") no-repeat 10px;
}
a:nth-child(numbers) will not support in ie6. If you dont need ie old
browsers support, nth-child method is best to you..