On May 3, 2011, at 2:30 AM, Chetan Crasta wrote:

> While experimenting with display:inline-block, I was surprised to find
> differences in rendering by three current browsers, viz. Chrome 11,
> Firefox 4 and Opera 11.10. Internet Explorer 8 and Safari's rendering
> is the same as Chrome 11.
> 
> Here's the page: http://roughtech.com/t/centering_multi.html

What differences do you see or think to see ?
Your copy of Chrome uses a different font than your copy of Firefox. The text 
in the first box wraps in Firefox but not in Chrome due to this. As a 
consequence, the second and third box move up/down. That is expected.

And note this:
> The baseline of an 'inline-block' is the baseline of its last line box in the 
> normal flow, unless it has either no in-flow line boxes or if its 'overflow' 
> property has a computed value other than 'visible', in which case the 
> baseline is the bottom margin edge.

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visudet.html#propdef-vertical-align

Philippe
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Philippe Wittenbergh
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