nested tag style
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en"> <head> <title></title> <style type="text/css"> body { margin: 10%; } h1 { width: 216px; height: 72px; position: relative: } h1 span { background: url(replacementimage.jpg) no-repeat; position: absolute; width: 100%; height: 100%; } </style> </head> <body> <h1><span>span</span>header</h1> </body> </html>