Doug Jolley wrote:
> What is the parent element?  For example, suppose that I had <p>My 
> dog <span style="vertical-align: baseline;">has</span>fleas.</p>  I 
> would say that the paragraph element was the parent of the span 
> element.

Yes.

> I certainly don't intend to align the baseline of the word "has" with
>  the baseline of the paragraph block.

Not the block ... the paragraph line-boxes - one for each line in the
paragraph.

See:
<http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visudet.html#line-height>
...for more info, and...
<http://www.brunildo.org/test/va_lineheight.html>
...for example/test/illustration.

regards
        Georg
-- 
http://www.gunlaug.no
______________________________________________________________________
css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d
List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/
List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html
Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/

Reply via email to