how can I give background image to li?

Question

The border image is not appearing can anyone help me?

#sidebar li {
padding-left: 30px;
border-bottom: 1px dotted #4A3903;
background: url(images/example.PNG) no-repeat 15px 50%;
}

Answer 1

Do you want background image or border image? For background-image use background-image and quote your url:

#sidebar li {
   padding-left: 30px; 
   border-bottom: 1px dotted #4A3903; 
   background-image: url('images/example.PNG') no-repeat 15px 50%; 
}

For border-image use border-image:

 #sidebar li {
        padding-left: 30px; 
        border-bottom: 1px dotted #4A3903; 
        -webkit-border-image:url('border.png') 10 10 round;
        -o-border-image:url('border.png') 10 10 round; 
        border-image:url('border.png') 10 10 round;
     }

Answer 2

Try adding

display: block;

to your styles as well. (inline-block may also work, if needed)

Answer 3

I've tried your code with - DEMO

<div id="sidebar">
    <ul>
        <li></li>
    </ul>
</div> 

CSS

#sidebar li {
padding-left: 30px;
border-bottom: 1px dotted #4A3903;
background: url(http://www.placehold.it/200x200) no-repeat 15px 50%;
}

But the background-image is not showing up FULL.

When you add width and height to your li tag equals to your image , it will solve the problem.

#sidebar li {
padding-left: 80px;
border-bottom: 1px dotted #4A3903;
background: url(http://www.placehold.it/50x50) no-repeat 0px 0px;
width:auto;
height:50px;
list-style:none;
font-size:24px;
vertical-align: middle;
display: table-cell;
}

UPDATED - DEMO