<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>CSS Test: Vertical-align set to 'baseline' with a spanning cell</title> <link rel="author" title="Microsoft" href="http://www.microsoft.com/"> <link rel="author" title="WebKit" href="http://www.webkit.org/"> <link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html#height-layout"> <meta name="flags" content=""> <meta name="assert" content="A spanning cell with Vertical-align set to 'baseline' aligns the cell's content baseline (which is the bottom of the first line of text or in-flow content) with the baseline of the first of the rows it spans."> <style type="text/css"> td { vertical-align: top; height: 50px; } #spanning { vertical-align: baseline; } #small { font-family: Ahem; font-size: small; } #large { font-family: Ahem; font-size: large; } </style> </head> <body> <!-- The first cell in the row-span is the only one that has a baseline - the others are vertical-align:top. Observing its baseline leads it to align the top of its text to the top of the text of the other two cells. --> <p>Test passes if the top of the black boxes below is aligned.</p> <table> <tr> <td> <div id="large">Text</div> </td> <td id="spanning" rowspan="3" colspan="1"> <div id="small">Text</div> </td> <td> <div id="large">Text</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>