Anchor Styling ... Could someone please help me with this?

Hello,

I am applying a style to a anchor tag. This anchor is created by an
ASP.NET page and is inside a list item.
I know the style is working because I applied it to the anchor in a
page that has only this.

.Test
{
background-color: #101010;
color: #E2E2E2;
padding: 4px 10px 6px 12px;
text-decoration: none;
font: normal 1.2em Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
}

<a href="Test.aspx" class="Test">Testing</a>

However, when I apply it to the anchor inside the list item I don't
get the bottom margin unless I add "display: block" to the style! But
then the background is extended 100%.

I don't know what is going on. I tried everything I could think off.
Here is the code where the Test style is giving me problems:
....
<li>
<label for="tbMessage" id="lMessage">Mensagem<span
class="Required">*</span></label>
<textarea name="tbMessage" rows="4" cols="20" id="tbMessage"></
textarea>
</li>
<li>
<a id="lbSubmit" class="Test"
href='javascript:WebForm_DoPostBackWithOptions(new
WebForm_PostBackOptions("ctl00$ctl00$cphSite$cfSen dContact$lbSubmit",
"", true, "ContactForm", "", false, true))'>
Send
</a>
</li>
</ul>

Any idea why this is happening?

All I am trying to do is to make my anchor look as a simple button.

Thank You,
Miguel

On Apr 27, 10:48 pm, shapper <mdmo... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

Hello,

I am applying a style to a anchor tag. This anchor is created by an
ASP.NET page and is inside a list item.
I know the style is working because I applied it to the anchor in a
page that has only this.

.Test
{
background-color: #101010;
color: #E2E2E2;
padding: 4px 10px 6px 12px;
text-decoration: none;
font: normal 1.2em Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
}

a href="Test.aspx" class="Test">Testing</a

However, when I apply it to the anchor inside the list item I don't
get the bottom margin unless I add "display: block" to the style! But
then the background is extended 100%.

I don't know what is going on. I tried everything I could think off.
Here is the code where the Test style is giving me problems:
...
li
label for="tbMessage" id="lMessage">Mensagem<span
class="Required">*</span></label
textarea name="tbMessage" rows="4" cols="20" id="tbMessage"></
textarea
/li
li
a id="lbSubmit" class="Test"
href='javascript:WebForm_DoPostBackWithOptions(new
WebForm_PostBackOptions("ctl00$ctl00$cphSite$cfSen dContact$lbSubmit",
"", true, "ContactForm", "", false, true))'
Send
/a
/li
/ul

Any idea why this is happening?

All I am trying to do is to make my anchor look as a simple button.

Thank You,
Miguel

I found the problem. Since I want to place the inputs in different
lines then the labels associated to them I added a display: block to
each label through CSS. When I do this somehow the <a> tag gets not
bottom padding ... have any idea why this is happening?

Thanks,
Miguel