I know to vertically align text to the middle of a block, you set the line-height to the same height of the block.
However, if I have a sentence with a word in the middle, that is 2em
. If the entire sentence has a line-height the same as the containing block, then the larger text is vertically aligned but the smaller text is on the same baseline as the larger text.
How can I set it so both sizes of text are vertically aligned, so the larger text will be on a baseline lower than the smaller text?
Try vertical-align:middle;
on inline containers?
EDIT : it works but all your text must be in an inline container, like this :
<div style="height:100px; line-height:100px; background:#EEE;">
<span style="vertical-align:middle;">test</span>
<span style="font-size:2em; vertical-align:middle;">test</span>
</div>
The functionality you are seeing is correct because the default for "vertical-align" is baseline. It appears that you want vertical-align:top
. There are other options.
See here at W3Schools.
Edit W3Schools has not cleaned up their act and still, appear, to be a shoddy (at best) source of information. I now use sitepoint. Scroll to the bottom of the sitepoint front page to access their reference sections.
the two set of text must have the same fixed line-height and the vertical-align set
span{
vertical-align: bottom;
line-height: 50px;
}
You technically can't, however, if you have fixed text sizes you could use positioning (relative) to move the larger text down and set the line-height to the smaller text (I'm presuming this larger text is marked up as such so you can use that as a CSS selector)
An option is to use a table there the different sized texts are in their own cells and use align:middle on each cell.
Its not pretty and does not work for all occasions, but it is simple and works with any text size.