CSS span with border

Question

Hi i don't get why my span with border looks like this

this is the css behind

color:red; 
font-size: 12px;
background-color: #ffcaca;
background-image:url(/Content/x.png);
background-size: 20px 20px;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position:2px;
padding: 5px;
border-radius: 5px 5px 5px;
border: 1px solid red;
padding-left: 25px;
position:relative;

and html

<tr>
    <td>
        <span>[...]</span>
    <td>
<tr>

Answer 1

You can give display: block to the span element or use div element instead of using span element.

I would prefer the latter one.