padding not getting applied to <a> link
Hi
I want to apply padding to CATEGORY LINK which is inside <li>
Only left padding is getting applied
but Top and Bottom padding is not getting applied
Code:
<!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">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<style type="text/css">
#leftnav li{list-style:none; background-color:#4b5913; padding:0px; color:#FFFFFF; margin-bottom:2px}
#leftnav ul li{background-color:#FFFFFF; color:#333333; padding:7px; border-bottom:1px dashed #999999}
#leftnav li a{padding:40em 0 40px 40px; text-decoration:none; color:#FFFFFF;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<ul id="leftnav">
<li><a href="">CATEGORY</a>
<ul>
<li>sublink</li>
<li>sublink</li>
<li>sublink</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="">CATEGORY</a></li>
<li><a href="">CATEGORY</a></li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
thanks
vineet