I would like to do this so that the clickable region on the tag is size of the LI.
LI
My html looks like:
In CSS:
li a { display: block; }
Of course, you'll want to make your selector more specific than that.
Link li.myClass a { display: block; background-color: #fdd; /* Demo only */ }
http://jsfiddle.net/userdude/jmj2k/