<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>CSS Test: Inline-block usage with :first-line</title> <link rel="author" title="Microsoft" href="http://www.microsoft.com/"> <link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/selector.html#first-line-pseudo"> <meta name="flags" content=""> <meta name="assert" content="The first line of an inline-block cannot be the first formatted line of an ancestor element."> <style type="text/css"> .test { display: inline-block; vertical-align:-100px; } div:first-line { background: green; } span, div:first-line { color: white; } div { color: red; } </style> </head> <body> <p>Test passes if there is a box below and the word "FAIL" is not visible.</p> <div> <span class="test"> <br>Filler Text</span><br><span>FAIL</span> </div> </body> </html>