How to increase width of anchor tag inside li to li width

Question

I have structure like this

  <div class='myClass'>
     <ul>
          <li>
               <a href="myfile.html">My link</a>
          </li>
     </ul>
  </div>

My li has a fixed with.
But a text is not always equal to li width
So the click able area is less than li.
I tried to fix it by increasing the width of the a but it is not working.
How can I achieve it.
I am using the following css

.tooltipinner ul {
   list-style-type: none;
   margin: 0;
   overflow-y: auto;
   padding: 0;
   width: 305px;
}
.tooltipinner ul li {
    background-color: #BBAEA5;
    background-image: url("../../Images/UIFiles/Menu/SubmenuBg.jpg");
    background-position: left top;
    background-repeat: repeat-x;
    border-top: 1px solid #C1BFBD;
    color: #FFFFFF;
    cursor: pointer;
    float: left;
    font-size: 12px;
    padding-bottom: 4px;
    padding-left: 5px;
    padding-top: 4px;
    width: 199px;
}
.tooltipinner ul li:hover {
    background-color: #BBAEA5;
    background-image: url("../../Images/UIFiles/Menu/SubmenuBgHover.jpg");
    background-position: left bottom;
    background-repeat: repeat-x;
    border-top: 1px solid #C1BFBD;
    cursor: pointer;
    float: left;
    padding-left: 5px;
}
.tooltipinner ul li a {
    color: #000000;
    font-size: 12px;
    font-weight: 400;
    text-decoration: none;
}
.tooltipinner ul li a:link {
    color: #000000;
    min-width: 200px;
    text-decoration: none;
}

I was also trying to put a div inside a but block element can not be placed inside a. How can I fixed this.

Here is a fiddle
http://jsfiddle.net/qry45/2/
http://jsfiddle.net/qry45/4/

Answer 1

Something like this in your CSS:

.myClass li a {
    width: 100%;
}

Block elements can be placed inside inline elements (<a>, <span>, etc.) if you're using the HTML5 doctype, and if you set display: block; on the <a> element:

.myClass li a {
    display: block;
}