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- /css/CSS2/visudet/inline-block-baseline-011.xht - WPT Dashboard Interop Dashboard
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<head>
<title>Vertical-align: baseline of an inline-block depends on 'overflow'</title>
<link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS22/visudet.html#leading" title="10.8.1 Leading and half-leading" />
<link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS22/changes.html#s.10.8.1" title="C.1 Changes since the Recommendation of 7 June 2011" />
<meta name="assert" content="The baseline of an 'inline-block’ whose ‘overflow’ property has a computed value of ‘visible’ is the baseline of its last line box in the normal flow, unless it has no in-flow line boxes, in which case the baseline is the bottom margin edge." />
<link rel="match" href="inline-block-baseline-010-ref.xht" />
<link rel="author" title="Bert Bos" href="mailto:bert@w3.org" />
<style type="text/css"><![CDATA[
body {background: white; color: black; font-size: 15px}
p {white-space: nowrap; line-height: 5}
span {display: inline-block; overflow: visible;
/* This inline-block has no line boxes, it's aligned at the bottom margin */
vertical-align: -0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;
height: 1em; width: 1em; background: blue}
]]></style>
</head>
<body>
<p>
A blue square
<span></span>
sits on the baseline.
</p>
</body>
</html>