Custom HTML list bullets & text wrapping / aligning

Question

I'm trying to create my own custom HTML list bullets, unfortunately I'm having hard time aligning text, any tips?

I can't change the markup, the bullets have to be inside of the anchor tags:

<li> 
   <a href="#"> <div class="bullet"></div> Text </a> 
</li>

Here's a screen with my custom bullets and standard ones:

And JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/XSUYE/

Solution

Here's a working example: http://jsfiddle.net/77PFX/

It uses the :before pseudo-element, which cleans up your markup a bit. The bullets are positioned absolutely, so they don't interfere with the flow of inline content in the <li>.

HTML

<ul class="list">
    <li><a href="#">Text</a></li>
    <li><a href="#" style="color: red">Text that is a bit too long and shows up under our "bullet"</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">Text</a></li>
</ul>

CSS

ul {
    width: 200px;
}

.list {
    list-style-type: none;

}

.list li{
    list-style-type: none;
    position: relative;
    padding-left: 5px;
}
.list li:before{
    content: ' ';
    display: block;
    width: 10px;
    height: 10px;
    background: #eee;
    border: solid 1px #aaa;
    position: absolute;
    top: 3px;
    left: -15px;
}

Screenshot