positioned in relation to containing element
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>CSS Example</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <style type='text/css'> p {font:12pt arial;} img.baseline {vertical-align:baseline;} img.middle {vertical-align:middle;} img.sub {vertical-align:sub;} img.super {vertical-align:super;} img.text-top {vertical-align:text-top;} img.text-bottom {vertical-align:text-bottom;} img.top {vertical-align:top;} img.bottom {vertical-align:bottom;} </style> </head> <body> <h2>Positioned in relation to containing element.</h2> <p><img class="baseline" src="http://www.java2s.com/style/logo.png" alt="plane" width="74" height="74" />The image is vertically aligned using the value baseline</p> <p><img class="middle" src="http://www.java2s.com/style/logo.png" alt="plane" width="74" height="74" />The image is vertically aligned using the value middle </p> <p><img class="sub" src="http://www.java2s.com/style/logo.png" alt="plane" width="74" height="74" />The image is vertically aligned using the value sub </p> <p><img class="super" src="http://www.java2s.com/style/logo.png" alt="plane" width="74" height="74" />The image is vertically aligned using the value super </p> <p><img class="text-top" src="http://www.java2s.com/style/logo.png" alt="plane" width="74" height="74" />The image is vertically aligned using the value text-top </p> <p><img class="text-bottom" src="http://www.java2s.com/style/logo.png" alt="plane" width="74" height="74" />The image is vertically aligned using the value text-bottom </p> <h2>Positioned in relation to line the element is part of:</h2> <p><img class="top" src="http://www.java2s.com/style/logo.png" alt="plane" width="74" height="74" />The image is vertically aligned using the value text-bottom </p> <p><img class="bottom" src="http://www.java2s.com/style/logo.png" alt="plane" width="74" height="74" />The image is vertically aligned using the value text-bottom </p> </body> </html>