Doug Jolley wrote:
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The line box is an anonymous inline element
OK. I get that and thanks for clarifying that point.
However, I'm still confused about how vertical-align:middle works. I
followed the line height calculations link in your link [1]. There
I found a rather
Thanks for the additional input.
I've sort of concluded that the way vertical-align:middle works is
this: The vertical midpoint of the inline element being vertically
aligned is aligned with an imaginary line which runs parallel to the
baseline and at a distance of one-half the applicable
Doug Jolley wrote:
Not the block ... the paragraph line-boxes -
one for each line in the paragraph.
Thanks. I don't really see how a line-box can be considered to be a
parent element. when it's not even an element at all. However, the
whole world must think that it is because virtually
Not the block ... the paragraph line-boxes -
one for each line in the paragraph.
Thanks. I don't really see how a line-box can be considered to be a
parent element. when it's not even an element at all. However, the
whole world must think that it is because virtually everyone refers to
I must be missing something real obvious. In discussing
vertical-align there is a proliferation of references to parent
element. For example, we might see a reference like, baseline -
Aligns the baseline of the element with the baseline of the parent
element.. What is the parent element? For
Doug Jolley wrote:
What is the parent element? For example, suppose that I had pMy
dog span style=vertical-align: baseline;has/spanfleas./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
