<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>CSS Test: Cell boxes smaller than their rows receive extra padding</title> <link rel="author" title="Microsoft" href="http://www.microsoft.com/"> <link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html#height-layout"> <meta name="flags" content="ahem"> <meta name="assert" content="A cell box that is smaller than height of its row receives extra top or bottom padding."> <style type="text/css"> table { border-spacing: 0; } td { color: blue; font: 16px/1em Ahem; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; } #short { color: orange; height: 1em; } </style> </head> <body> <p>Test passes if there is orange box to the right of the blue box and the orange box is vertically aligned to the middle of the blue box.</p> <table> <tr> <td> XXXXX<br> XXXXX<br> XXXXX<br> XXXXX<br> XXXXX<br> </td> <td id="short">XXXXX</td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>