Add span inside views pager I need to add a single span inside of the list items of a views pager. This needs to be there even when the list item doesnt contain a link (when you are on the current pager's page). 

I cant see any tpl files for doing this (my preferred method as im more of a themer.)

Ive looked for a theme override and ive found the following. The problem is that I cant figure where I would add the span. 

function theme_views_mini_pager($vars) {
  global $pager_page_array, $pager_total;

  $tags = $vars['tags'];
  $element = $vars['element'];
  $parameters = $vars['parameters'];

  // current is the page we are currently paged to
  $pager_current = $pager_page_array[$element] + 1;
  // max is the maximum page number
  $pager_max = $pager_total[$element];
  // End of marker calculations.

  if ($pager_total[$element] &gt; 1) {

    $li_previous = theme('pager_previous',
      array(
        'text' =&gt; (isset($tags[1]) ? $tags[1] : t('‹‹')),
        'element' =&gt; $element,
        'interval' =&gt; 1,
        'parameters' =&gt; $parameters,
      )
    );
    if (empty($li_previous)) {
      $li_previous = "&amp;nbsp;";
    }

    $li_next = theme('pager_next',
      array(
        'text' =&gt; (isset($tags[3]) ? $tags[3] : t('››')),
        'element' =&gt; $element,
        'interval' =&gt; 1,
        'parameters' =&gt; $parameters,
      )
    );

    if (empty($li_next)) {
      $li_next = "&amp;nbsp;";
    }

    $items[] = array(
      'class' =&gt; array('pager-previous'),
      'data' =&gt; $li_previous,
    );

    $items[] = array(
      'class' =&gt; array('pager-current'),
      'data' =&gt; t('@current of @max', array('@current' =&gt; $pager_current, '@max' =&gt; $pager_max)),
    );

    $items[] = array(
      'class' =&gt; array('pager-next'),
      'data' =&gt; $li_next,
    );
    return theme('item_list',
      array(
        'items' =&gt; $items,
        'title' =&gt; NULL,
        'type' =&gt; 'ul',
        'attributes' =&gt; array('class' =&gt; array('pager')),
      )
    );
  }
}
Have a look at YOUR_SITE_ROOT/includes/pager.inc

I think you are looking for the theme_pager_previous() and theme_pager_next() functions.