What is the standard way to add an icon to a link with CSS?

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Published on 2010-06-10T12:54:00Z Indexed on 2010/06/10 13:12 UTC
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I'm used to use padding + background-image to place an icon next to a link.

There are many example of this approach. Here is one from here:

 <a class="external" href="http://www.othersite.com/">link</a>

  a.external {  
     padding-right: 15px;  
     background: transparent url(images/external-link-icon.gif) no-repeat top right;  
 }

But most browser don't print background image, which is annoying.

What is the standard to place icon next to links which is semantically correct and works in all cases?

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