text vertical align: baseline top middle bottom
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<style type='text/css'>
p {
margin: 10px;
font-size: 40px;
}
span {
background: lightblue;
}
span.valign {
font-size: 16px;
color: white;
background: steelblue;
font-weight: bold;
}
span#baseline {
vertical-align: baseline;
}
span#text-top {
vertical-align: text-top;
}
span#middle {
vertical-align: middle;
}
span#text-bottom {
vertical-align: text-bottom;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p>
<span>
Peter Piper picked a peck of
<span class='valign' id='baseline'>pickled</span>
peppers.
</span>
</p>
<p>
<span>
Did Peter Piper pick a peck of
<span class='valign' id='text-top'>pickled</span>
peppers?
</span>
</p>
<p>
<span>
If Peter Piper picked a peck of
<span class='valign' id='middle'>pickled</span>
peppers,
</span>
</p>
<p>
<span>
where's the peck of
<span class='valign' id='text-bottom'>pickled</span>
peppers Peter Piper picked?
</span>
</p>
</body>
</html>
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