It is possible to do this, but there's tricks of setting font-size and background-size involved to get the background sprite image to scale correctly. I got th

It is possible to do this, but there's tricks of setting font-size and background-size involved to get the background sprite image to scale correctly. I got this info from somewhere in The Googles, so the information is out there. I haven't yet tried this on older browsers, so it may need extra help when I decided what browsers my app will support