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/