<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>CSS Test: Vertical-align and alignment of inline boxes</title> <link rel="author" title="Microsoft" href="http://www.microsoft.com/"> <link rel="reviewer" title="Gérard Talbot" href="http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/css21testsuite/"> <!-- 2012-04-02 --> <link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#inline-formatting"> <link rel="match" href="reference/inline-formatting-context-011-ref.htm"> <meta name="flags" content="ahem"> <meta name="assert" content="The 'vertical-align' property determines the vertical alignment of a box within a line box."> <style type="text/css"> div { border-top: solid orange; } span { border: 20px solid blue; display: inline-block; font: 50px Ahem; } #span1 { color: blue; line-height: 1em; } #span2 { line-height: 10px; vertical-align: top; } </style> </head> <body> <p>Test passes if the black square and blue rectangles touch the orange line.</p> <div> <span id="span1">X</span> <span id="span2">X</span> </div> </body> </html>