Thank you. This helps.
-----Original Message-----
From: Philippe Wittenbergh [mailto:e...@l-c-n.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2015 5:57 PM
To: Angela French
Cc: CSS-D
Subject: Re: [css-d] vertical-align baseline issue?
> On Jul 30, 2015, at 03:33, Angela French <afre...@sbctc.edu> wrote:
>
> I have an h1 with a span applied to the first three words to make them
> smaller. I want the bottom of the text to line up those with the rest of the
> heading and it is not.
>
> Html: <h1><span class="policyManualFirstLine">SBCTC Policy
> Manual</span> Chapter 4: Instructional Program and Course
> Development</h1>
>
>
> CSS:
> h1 span.policyManualFirstLine
> {
> font-size:.65em;
> vertical-align:baseline!important; /* tried this, no effect */
> padding-bottom:0; /* tried this, no effect */ }
>
> Is what I'm looking for possible? Am I not doing it right?
Can you provide a test case illustrating your problem? Failing that, you'll
need to provide more context…
By default your span *should* rest on the baseline of its parent element,
unless there are rules somewhere that prevents it.
Look at this test case, the span rests on the baseline:
http://dev.l-c-n.com/_junk/cssd-af.html
(the red line indicates the baseline)
Philippe
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