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HTML

<label class="required">Name</label>

CSS

.required:after {
    content:'';
    display: inline-block;
    width: .5em;
    height: .5em;
    background-image: url(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/Asterisk.svg);
    background-size: .5em .5em;    
    vertical-align: top;
    margin-left: .15em;
    margin-top: .1em;
}