How do I get rid of white spaces between spans without manipulating the HTML?

Question

This is my code for a drop down menu. I pulled the code from a tutorial that produced this: http://www.webdesigndev.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/fancydropdown.html

Answer 1

From this style:

#menu ul li a:hover span {
    background: url("images/topselectionright.png") repeat scroll right top transparent;
}

remove

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