{text-indent : -9999} for image replace not working

Answer 1

Keep in mind that (if you care) with inline-block the text-indent image replacement technique will fail in IE7. I recently had a heck of a time figuring that one out. I used this technique for IE7 and it works:

.ir {
    font: 0/0 a;
    text-shadow: none;
    color: transparent;
}