Country flag images in combo box take forever to load

[Chen]

Hi,
I want to have a combo box for country flags, and have the ~240 countries listed with the ~240 flags.

When I use the ImageURL attribute, the loading of 240 flags takes forever as only a couple of requests are sent concurrently.

I have a sprite for flags, but cannot seem to separate the image from the text, i.e. if I use CSS and Background property, the text is placed on top of the flag.

Is there a way for me to show the flags in a combo box from a sprite, and have the text to the right of the flag?

Chen

[sitefinitysteve]

Have you tried padding-left:20px (or whatever) to move the text over away from the flag?

[Chen]

When I do that both the flag and text move.
In HTML they are both <li> and any padding I apply is applied to all of the <li>.

[sitefinitysteve]

Hmm if done right, it SHOULDN'T :/

Have a look at the attached image, I just quickly modified one of the demo pages

So the image becomes the background of the <li> and when the padding is set the test should be pushed over too