Image Messing Up Alignment

[jokingjoey]

Hello all,

I am trying to make a horizontal nav bar using a list. Everything was going good until I tried to add an image (essential a line) to seperate each <li>. When I did this, the height of the nav bar expanded and it moved the entire list down about 15 pixels or so. I am attaching an image before I added the image and after I added the image to show.

Here is my css code for before I add the image:

PHP Code:

#navbar {
    height:37px; 
    line-height:33px;
    padding: 2px 0 0 10px;
    vertical-align:top;
    background: url(images/linkbarbg1.png) repeat-x;
    font-family: Tahoma, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
    font-size: 18px;
    color: #FFFFFF;

}

#navbar ul {
    vertical-align:top;
    margin:0;
    padding:0;
    border: 0px solid #000000;
}

#navbar ul li {
    display: inline;

}

#navbar ul li a {
    display: inline;
    text-decoration: none;
    padding-top: 5px;
    padding-bottom: 4px;
    padding-right: 10px;
    padding-left: 10px;
    color:#FFFFFF;

}

#navbar ul li a:hover
{
height: 31px;
background:url(images/linkbarbg1hover.png) repeat-x top left;
background-color: #FF3300;
} 


And HTML:

PHP Code:

<div id="main">
 <div class="leftshadow">
  <div class="rightshadow">
   <div id="header"><img src="images/logo1.png" /></div>
   <div id="navbar">
    <ul>
     <li><a href="#">Milk</a></li>
     <li><a href="#">Eggs</a></li>
     <li><a href="#">Cheese</a></li>
     <li><a href="#">Vegetables</a></li>
     <li><a href="#">Fruit</a></li>
    </ul>
   </div>
  </div>
</div> 


And here is what it looks like:


My CSS Code is the same for after, here is my HTML code for after:

PHP Code:

<div id="main">
 <div class="leftshadow">
  <div class="rightshadow">
   <div id="header"><img src="images/logo1.png" /></div>
   <div id="navbar">
    <ul>
     <li><a href="#">Milk</a></li>
     <li><img src="images/linkbarseperator1.png" /></li>
     <li><a href="#">Eggs</a></li>
     <li><a href="#">Cheese</a></li>
     <li><a href="#">Vegetables</a></li>
     <li><a href="#">Fruit</a></li>
    </ul>
   </div>
  </div>
</div> 


and here is what is looks like:


Is there a way to fix this?

UPDATE
I have noticed the same thing happens even when it is not a list. Therefore, it must be due to some other factor...does anyone have any ideas?

[abduraooft]

does anyone have any ideas?

Can we have a link to your page?