if you look here : http://test3.dekkers.net/ you can see the icon lies under the link, as soon as i remove the dir="rtl" from the html tag - all works.
this is all the code : <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html dir="rtl" xml:lang="he" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" > <head><title> Untitled Page </title> <style type="text/css"> a[href^="http:"] { padding-right:10px; background:url(/images/externalLink.gif) no-repeat right top; } </style> </head> <body> <div> <a href="http://www.imagine-design.co.il">Imagine</a> </div> </body> </html> any suggestions ? Thanks Ido ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/