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HTML

<input type="text" class="form-control vrm-input" id="vrm" name="vrm" placeholder="" maxlength="10">

CSS

.vrm-input:before {
    background: url("http://www.byplug.com/oink.jpg") repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);
    content: " ";
    height: 112px;
    left: -61px;
    position: absolute;
    top: 10px;
    width: 61px;
    z-index: 100;
}