- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@fas.harvard.edu>
- Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 10:26:14 -0500 (EST)
- To: erik@netscape.com, www-style@w3.org
On Sat, 27 Nov 1999 00:13:51 -0800, erik@netscape.com (Erik van der Poel) wrote: > Erik van der Poel wrote: > > > > Now I have a question about aligning text vertically inside its inline > > box. Is the implementor supposed to use the max ascent (i.e. including > > any protruding glyphs) or the ascent (i.e. excluding any protruding > > glyphs)? > > Assuming that the font-size is 12pt, the line-height is 14pt and that > 1pt should be added above and below, I think that the vertical alignment > should be (1pt + ascent), not (1pt + max ascent), since the 12pt > font-size does not include the max ascent and max descent. I agree that you should use ascent, because otherwise it wouldn't be aligned correctly from the bottom (i.e., centered). (The way you propose to do things, ascent + descent = font-size, right? And I assume by "vertical alignment" you mean the distance from the top of the inline box to the baseline of the text.) -David L. David Baron Sophomore, Harvard (Physics) dbaron@fas.harvard.edu Links, SatPix, CSS, etc. <URL: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~dbaron/ > WSP CSS AC <URL: http://www.webstandards.org/css/ >
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