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    <title>CSS Test: 'vertical-align: text-top' - line-height</title>
  
    <link rel="author" title="Gérard Talbot" href="http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/css21testsuite/" />
    <link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visudet.html#leading" title="Section 10.8.1 Leading and half-leading" />
    <link rel="match" href="vertical-align-118a-ref.xht" />
  
    <meta content="ahem" name="flags" />
    <meta content="For inline non-replaced elements (such as the span element in this testcase), the box used for vertical-alignment is the box whose height is the 'line-height' (containing the box's glyphs and the half-leading on each side). 'vertical-align: text-top' will align the top of such box with the top of the parent's content area and not with the bottom of the parent's box." name="assert" />
  
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/fonts/ahem.css" />
    <style type="text/css"><![CDATA[
    div
    {
    background-color: yellow;
    /*
    The sole purpose for such yellow background
    is to help delimit and visually identify the
    content area of the block container box.
    */
    font: 2.5em/3.25 Ahem;
    /*
    equivalent to font: 40px/130px (with top-half-leading
    and bottom-half-leading each equal to 45px) but
    entirely font-size-relative and perfectly
    text-size-scalable in all browsers
    */
    }
  
    span
    {
    color: blue;
    margin: auto -1em;
    vertical-align: text-top;
    }
    ]]></style>
  
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    <p>Test passes if the blue stripe is vertically offset <strong>below the black stripes on both sides</strong>. The blue stripe must be clearly and entirely below the black stripes.</p>
  
    <div>LLLL<span>MustBeBelow</span>LLLL</div>
  
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