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Hide text of anchor tags when setting background image

I am using wordpress to generate a ul with anchor tags and I have separate classes for each element, I set a background image for each anchor tag with the following code

What I want to do is hide the text to anchor the list item while keeping the background image.

.shop a {
    background-image:url('../images/shopFull.png');
    width:209px;
    height: 74px;
    display:block;
}

Here is the outputted html

<nav class="menu-main-navigation-container"><ul id="menu-main-navigation" class="nav-bar"><li id="menu-item-22" class="shop menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-22"><a href="http://localhost:8888/goodMorningMoon/shop/">Shop</a></li>
<li id="menu-item-21" class="services menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-21"><a href="http://localhost:8888/goodMorningMoon/services/">Services</a></li>
<li id="menu-item-23" class="blog menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-23"><a href="http://localhost:8888/goodMorningMoon/blog/">blog</a></li>
<li id="menu-item-20" class="contact menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-20"><a href="http://localhost:8888/goodMorningMoon/contact/">Contact</a></li>
</ul></nav>
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Use text-indent

MDN docs and overflow:hidden

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shop a {
    background-image:url('../images/shopFull.png'); 
    width:209px; 
    height: 74px; 
    display:block;

    text-indent:-9999px;
    overflow:hidden;
}
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A classic hack for this:

a { text-indent: -9999px; }


The problem with this particular solution is not good for SEO. If you want something more robust, you can use white text on a white backgorund, or this other hack:

a { font-size: 0; }
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