I\'m puzzled by the following problem. I wish to (absolutely) position the baseline of some piece of HTML text at a certain y-coordinate, while the text should be starting a
Hacky solution based on this blog post.
HTML:
<body>
<div id="text">css=powerful</div>
</body>
CSS:
body {
margin: 0;
}
#text {
font-size: 30px;
line-height: 0px;
margin-left: 100px;
}
#text:after {
content: "";
display: inline-block;
height: 120px;
}
JsFiddle. The basepoint is aligned to (100, 120).
jsFiddle Goofy (and crazy ugly/hacky), but it works.
<body>
<div id="spacer"></div>
<div id="text">
<img src="http://placehold.it/10X100" id="baseline">css=powerful</div>
</body>
...
body {
margin: 0px;
}
#spacer {
float: left;
width: 190px;
height: 100px;
background-color: red;
}
#baseline {
visibility: hidden;
}
#text {
float: left;
background-color: yellow;
font-family: helvetica, arial; /* may vary */
font-size: 60px; /* may vary */
}
Edit I guess, really, it's all about the image. So you could just simplify and use a transparent spacer gif. Still stupid hacky, I know. jsFiddle
Try this :
HTML :
<div id="text-holder">
<div id="text-holder-position"></div>
<div id="text">css=powerful</div>
</div>
<div id="heightJudger"></div>
CSS :
BODY
{
position: absolute;
margin: 0px;
}
#text
{
position: relative;
margin-top:-0.938em;
left:0px;
font-family: helvetica, arial;
font-size: 80px;
/*You can remove this*/
background: yellow;
opacity: 0.5;
}
#text-holder
{
position: absolute;
height: 200px;
left: 200px;
}
#text-holder-position {
position: relative;
height: 200px;
width: 200px;
background: green;
}
#heightJudger {
position:absolute;
height:200px; width:200px;
background:red;
top:0; left:0;
}
if you want to change the position, change the "height" and the "left" parameters of the #text-holder
This way you will be able to control your basepoint position.
I put the height judger and some color so you can see if it's what you exepct.
EDIT : Changed the #text margin unit to em. JSFiddle
By default inline-block/inline and text in block are baseline vertical-aligned. Create an pseudo element inside the block you want to move in Y and defining the height of this spacer.
/**
Create a vertical spacer. It will be aligned with the parent's content baseline:
**/
.text::before{
content: "";
/*the Y value:*/
height: 100px;
width: 0px;
display: inline-block;
}
/**
The rest (only for this demo)
**/
body{
font-family: sans-serif;
font-size: 60px;
margin: 0;
}
body::before{
content: "";
display: block;
position: absolute;
top: 100px;
width: 100%;
height: 2px;
margin: -1px 0;
background-color: #00D500;
z-index: 1;
}
body::after{
content: "";
display: block;
position: absolute;
top: 100px;
left: 200px;
height: 8px;
width: 8px;
margin: -4px;
border-radius: 50%;
background-color: #FF0077;
z-index: 1;
}
.text {
margin: 0;
position: absolute;
/*the X value:*/
left: 200px;
}
<p class="text">css=powerful</p>