How to make an inline element appear on new line, or block element not occupy the whole line?

Problem :

I can't figure out how to do this with CSS. If I just use a <br> tag, it works flawlessly, but I'm trying to avoid doing that for obvious reasons.

Basically, I just want the .feature_desc span to start on a new line, but:

• If I make it an inline element, it won't have a line-break.
• If I make it a block element, it will expand to fit the entire line, putting each of these icons on its own line, and wasting tons of space on the screen (each .feature_wrapper will be a slightly different size, but none will ever be as wide as the entire screen.)

Example code: This works, but uses a br tag:

<li class='feature_wrapper' id='feature_icon_getstart'> 
    <span style='display: none;' class='search_keywords'>started</span> 
    <span class='feature_icon spriteicon_img' id='icon-getstart'><a href='getstarted/index.html' class='overlay_link'></a></span><br/>
    <span class='feature_desc'><a href='getstarted/index.html' >Getting Started Wizard</a></span> 
</li>

I want to style this with CSS to achieve the same result:

<li class='feature_wrapper' id='feature_icon_getstart'> 
    <span style='display: none;' class='search_keywords'>started</span> 
    <span class='feature_icon spriteicon_img' id='icon-getstart'><a href='getstarted/index.html' class='overlay_link'></a></span>
    <span class='feature_desc'><a href='getstarted/index.html' >Getting Started Wizard</a></span> 
</li>

Any ideas? Or am I going about this the wrong way?

Solution :

You can give it a property display block; so it will behave like a div and have its own line

CSS:

.feature_desc {
   display: block;
   ....
}