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HTML
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Button</title>
</head>
<body style="background-color:#cccccc;">
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" height="32px">
<tr>
<td>
<img src="http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/8052/lefto.png" border="0" />
</td>
<td style="background:url(http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/2825/centervw.png); background-repeat: repeat-x; color:#FFFFFF;">
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</td>
<td><img src="http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/4676/rightk.png" />
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<div style=" text-align:center;">
<button> <img src="http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/8052/lefto.png" border="0" /><span style="background:url(http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/2825/centervw.png); background-repeat: repeat-x; color:#FFFFFF;">Press Me Press Me Press Me Press Me Press Me Press Me Press Me Press Me Press Me </span><img src="http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/4676/rightk.png" />
</button>
</div>
</body>
</html>
CSS
button *{
float:left;
height:32px;
line-height:32px;
}